Drew, is the "Mediden" gun a third gun in their history ?hmmm
My original catalog has a similar cover, but the gun is "The Meriden Gun"
db, I have heard of the Meriden line being marketed by others, but I have never seen them offered elsewhere . After reading Jim Perkins' article I see it is very well researched with names, places, and dates. Not like many "my gun" articles which only copy other people's mistakes. This article leads me to think that the Meriden, as was the Aubrey, was an exclusive line. It would be interesting to see if we could develope a serial no. group that might shed some more info on these guns. All of my observations have been the casual, not written down ones. In general when I saw a Meriden, I remember seeing higher numbers. And, when I saw an Aubrey, I thought low number. Nothing scientific or definitive here. I do think if we could have a bank of serial numbers on hand that we would find a few Aubrey numbers higher than a specific Meriden number. But if it were like other makers seem to have experienced, I would suggest that when Meriden started, their were some "old" Aubrey frames yet to be finished and we could find the odd , out of sequence , number.
Pete, thanks for the search of the records. I did not expect the immigrants to be Austrian. Too bad my memory on the engraver is not good. I think it came up in a discussion with the late Lanny Samson, who was a fine researcher. Maybe if we keep looking, good info will follow.
