The nice 4 Iron Hufnagel tubes were proved for a light load of 32 grams = 1 1/8 oz with only 2.2 gram = 34 grains "Schultze"
Original "Schultze" was 14 grains/dram so only 2 1/2 Drams. "New Schultze" was introduced (in the U.S.) about 1906 and was 12 grains/dram.
The SB&Co of Samuel Buckley has a bit different font than that of Sanderson Bros. & Co., and has been found on Twist N.R. Davis and fluid steel Ithaca Flues, Fox Sterlingworth and Lefever doubles
Samuel Buckley served on the Birmingham Proof House Committee and in 1863 was one of the officers in the British Small Arms Co. He later established a branch office in Detroit. Guns produced by William Powell in the 1860s exist marked Samuel Buckley & Co. Hammer guns and Anson & Deeley patent BLNEs were imported into the US by J. Palmer O'Neal of Pittsburgh, PA in the 1880's.
See The Double Gun Journal Vol. 22 Issue 3, 2011
The American Exporter’s Export Trade Directory of 1915 listed Samuel Buckley & Co. as “chiefly importers” with offices at 16 East 33rd St., New York, 2 Soho Square, London and Liege, Belgium.
Samuel Buckley & Co., Manhattan incorporated in July 1921.
Walt Snyder provided this quotation from Harry Howland regarding c. 1920 Ithaca Gun Co. barrels - “We were getting all our barrels forged, rough drilled and rough turned from Belgium. We were purchasing them from either Samuel Buckley & Co. or from J. Riga & Co. and it was not until two or three years later that we began purchasing those barrels from the Flannery Bolt Co.”
