doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com A couple questions on a Sedgley.

A lot of letters in the initial shield and what do you think CSS3 might mean? The owner will be watching this and can answer questions.

Original owner looks like W K DuP

I can't think of a barrel maker or gunsmith with the CSS initials, but I'll bet someone can. The 3 is a further mystery to me.

I think the initials are WK du PC; Could this be William Kemble DuPont Carpenter (1919 -1987)? He was the son of R.R.M. Carpenter and Margaretta Lamont DuPont and the nephew of Pierre S. DuPont.

Terry,
The barrel is a NRA Sporter barrel that was rebored to 35 Whelen and still retains the star guage mark on the muzzle. I wonder if the CSS3 has a connection to the reboring.
Dan

Carpetsahib,
Thanks for the idea on a name for the shield, there can't be many people with those initials.
Dan

Wow...yeah, that has to be right. How did you know that? Did he have other rifles monogramed, or are you just familiar with the DuPont family?

A DuPont could easily have the privilege to send a personal gun to Remington for repair, since they owned the company. CSS3 is the Remington repair code for April of 1947. How am I doing? Not as well as the poster who identified the owner of the gun, obviously. Good work.

Its just simple logic: the "du P" suggests DuPont. The "C" suggests the initial of the last name - Cooper, Cox, Carpenter, etc. It isn't far fetched to believe that someone connected to the DuPont family would indicate the fact by using a composite family name.

So, I simply googled "WK DuPont" and looked for a likely candidate with a "C" surname. The party chosen fit the initials and the time period, so voila.

Eightbore,
Does the quarter rib and sight look like Rem work from 1947? Could they have rebored the barrel to 35 at Rem and used the CSS3 mark for the rib and rebore?
This was a great idea of Michaels to post this on the forum, getting lots of good info.
Thanks,Dan

I am a little surprised to find Mr. Carpenter used a "Poor Man's Griffin and Howe". I Googled his name out of curosity as to his gun interests and found the following entry, in the family history blog:
"William Kemble Du Pont CARPENTER-11802 was born 27 May 1919 in DE. He died in FL in 1987.
He retired to Florida where he was concidered the richest man there with 333 million. Unknown which date the dollar figure figured."
Maybe he had the money because he didn't buy G&H's...of course he probably had more than 1 rifle!!!!
Here is a 1950 photo at a family reunion, he is on left and the lady in the dark gown is his wife Frances.