Daryl-

Thanks and no doubt you and those who researched and wrote the articles know far more than I. I am nonetheless left dubious- particularly over the Meriden name being post AJ Aubrey when Drew has a Meriden catalogue from 1908 and my Sears 1908 reprint has AJ Aubrey. As you note if Winchester or any of the listed makers did cease sales to Sears, it was certainly short lived and the firearms Meriden lists in the 1908 catalogue are double barreled shotguns and break open revolvers, not exactly what Winchester would have been selling then. The major US double gun makers would have been Parker, Ithaca and LC Smith right? Of those only Parker isn't sold by Sears in 1908.

Anyone have those earlier catalogues in their library?

Doug