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It's hard for me to tell the early work of Fugger from Kornbrath. Fugger was working with Kornbrath and they did the same things over and over.

I called it a "Kornbrath" Moose but, after talking with a true expert on the subject I think Fugger did the whole thing.

In the overall scope of things it speaks for it's self, fine engraving done by a master.

The Linden-Whelen rifle talked about. Picture supplied by Townsend Whelen Bowling.

Very nice rifle, congratulations!

The TW rifle in the photo above turned up about 50 miles from me a few years back with an individual that didn't know anything about it. I think it had been given to him. Michael knows the story and of course I tried to acquire it. The person that owned it had no real appreciation for it other that the value that it had. The bigger my offer the harder he ran. I believed it ended up at auction and sold for less than I had offered. It had been in a nice photo with TW on the cover of American Rifleman, I cannot remember the year. Win some lose some.

Thanks Michael! I'm guessing he had just gotten it back from G&H (1938)and wanted to try it out.

I really like this rifle. I like that the checkering is not the norm, too.

Another Hutton surfaced, a friend here in Alaska found it.

Pictures in the future.

LOL, they'll be showing up everywhere now that the famous Michael Petrov has written about them. Someone probably went out and had a HUTTON stamp made up. Next thing you know we will find some stamped HUTUN to go along with the Shelhammer guns.

Funny how he was on the cover of AR in 1939, yet never really got the attention of some of the others even though his work is right up there with the best.

John

For most of the men who worked for someone else they never did get into the spotlight.

Hutton worked for G&H but don't recall any stocks from G&H with his stamp in them.

I suspect that many of the "Unknowns" were made in the larger sporting goods stores like VL&D and A&F and others. We may never learn their names.

I have to tell you guys the bad news. Most of the guns that Hutton built after he left Parker Whelen are probably spread around the Virginia countryside and will not be discovered in the near future. Hutton probably did about ninety percent of his post PW work for local customers in the Virginia hunt country.