Good points Lloyd. According to the great ? Dewey Vicnair all L.C. Smith's were farm implement tools. I guess it is because they didn't have intercepting sears and other things that he brought up which I and many don't agree with and that I can't remember.
I think you have to go back to when John Hunter first bought L.C. Smith in 1888-89, those guns from Syracuse were all hand done with machine parts, as guns all over were made. It is what went into them that sets them apart. L.C. Smith hired the best engravers that also did work for other gun manufactures and you can see this by the engraving they did. They had brokers going overseas looking for the best walnut for stocks. The early Hunter Arms L.C. Smith's show this until around 1914-1918 when the war changed most manufacturing.
You can read most of this in the book.
