OK, I'll try a different question. Was John Hutton the gunsmith who retired to a home up on the mountain behind Shenandoah Guns in Berryville, Virginia? Shop owner Ben Toxvard never referred to him by name, but did tell me that he was the previous owner of the Parker try gun that Ben used in his shop. I deduced that the man on the mountain was previously employed as a gunsmith at Parker-Whelen in Washington, D.C. I have always thought that the man on the mountain was John Hutton. Michael and I had discussed this a bit before he died but never reached a conclusion.
