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Have a Wesson Double with no Markings except "C W Duston" on rib.
By chance does anyone have any knowledge of him?
Possibly he might have been in the gun industry and finished the
gun after Wesson quit making shotguns ?
Any input greatly appreciated
Thanks
Bill McPhail
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I found c. 1900 a Dr. C.W. Duston in Craftsbury, VT and a C.W. in Demopolis, Alabama.
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The gun may have been made for CW Duston.
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Found a Duston Hardware in Clearfield, PA.
I'm with Dean however.
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Thanks Gentlemen. Agree Duston was the owner not maker.
Will go with Vermont Duston-as Alabama was in reconstruction in
the early 1870's-no money around for a $175 gun
Thanks again
Bill McPhail
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Bill Im pretty sure its junk and you should send it to me.
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Will go with Vermont Duston-as Alabama was in reconstruction in
the early 1870's-no money around for a $175 gun
Come on Dr. McPhail, there were a handful of folks in South Alabama that had cash????? Large bills mind you(Shorty Kellems-Big Money- Beverly Hillbillies - Confederate)...... Cheers, Raimey rse
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That time in Alabama at the turn of the century was difficult. There were 300,000 registered Black voters. But the aristocracy (and my family were part of it) didn't much like competition. There was money there...in pockets. Mobile was a major port; Birmingham a major steel producer; the Black Belt was still incredibly rich agricultural era. Auburn University was still an illiterate and cultural desert (unchanged to this day).
Along with the free silver movement and William Jennings Bryan, politicians began to go populist in a state with a lot of share croppers, tar paper shacks, "strawberry-pickers." The devastation of the War was still lying heavy on the State. Politicians began competing for the Black vote. This scared the establishment and the populist opposition so much that they decided to eliminate this sector of the electorate and by 1903 there were only 3,000 registered Black voters. History is not always a shining beacon.
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What's your point, Suh?? Do you think the WASP power structure wants uneducated people, regardless of their skin color, to vote and have some possible control over their future economic status?
This is still somewhat the case yet today. The Demmie-Crats have always solicited a voting based from minorities, promising them everything to get their support in the voting booth- History has shown us the sad results- higher crime rates, drug usage, unwed mothers, generations living on the welfare system with its inherent structure geared to fraud and deceit. What a Pandora's box ol' Abe Lincoln started back in 1861--Damn shame.. RWTF
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