All,
I appreciate the responses. Your input reinforces my initial perception that, talking at the marco level here, the availibility of true left-handed guns is a relatively recent phenomenom. I've done some more digging in various vintage catalogs and there is really very little there. (I'm not saying there we no true left-handed guns - just that there was nothing near the volume of left-handed guns as compared to the volume of potential left-eyed/handed customers.)
It seemed odd to me that with so many makers trying to distinguish their product in a crowded double-gun market 100 years ago that no one made a big push into the left-handed market. Obviously the additional cost for essentially two models of the same gun would push the vendor cost up some, but I think there was something more holding the market back. Maybe it was the left-handed stigma to some extent?
Again, thanks for the input.
Ken