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Hi I am a collector of Hollenbeck , Three barrels gun co, and The Royal gun co. guns and paperwork. I no that Fred Dewey worked at all three Co. I now have his last gun that he ever sold and maid entirley by himself it was sold in 1959. Mr. Dewey passed away in 1962 in West Virgina. He gave his last Three barrels gun to his grandson. My Qustion is does anyone know of Mr. Dewey or his faimaly I really need to get in touch with them.
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The last one I saw was at Gulf Coast guns, http://www.gulfcoastguns.com/ , and it was assembled from parts by some decendent in the Florida Panhandle. Or someone purchased the parts from the heirs and assembled it. A fella at the shop had a story with it. I wish I had more info. Kind Regards, Raimey rse
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Yes I see the gun at gulf coast guns Rudy K. assembled it he had a lot of parts from the Hollandback Co. My gun is a 16gage not marked on the barrels. That is why some guns you run into are not marked Mr.Dewey and other gunsmiths took parts in lew of there wages. My gun was sold to an oregnial stockholder son sold to by Mr. Dewey in 1959. I have all the paper work with dates from 1956 to present.
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The guy in Florida was Rudolf J. Kostelecky, Rudy's Gun Shop in Cantonment, Florida. He was a machinest at the Naval Air Station in Pensicola from WW-II until he retired and opened his gun shop. I was given his copy of the Three-Barrel/Royal Gun Co. ledger, with his 1970 FFL taped inside the back cover. There are a lot of guns in there that have no shipping date and just HGS written in the sold to column. I've always wondered if all those guns went to Hollenbeck Gun Shop back up in Syracuse, New York? There are also quite a few high number guns that have an entry in the consignment column "Have W.E.B." Some of these then have the initials RJK after the W.E.B. and an entry in the sold to column. There are quite a few shipping dates in late 1910, 1911 and 1912, so the receiver must have been finishing up guns and shipping them to jobbers/dealers for a few years after Royal Gun Co. officially bit the dust.
I don't find the name Fred Dewey anywhere in this ledger.
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Very good info Researcher and Kostelecky was the guy. I also had in my mind that the story told to me involved a niece in the mix.
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Researcher thanks for the info.In the 2006 DGJ think it was summer an peace was written by Al Lewis on The Hollenbeck gun Co. last surviving gun smith Fred Dewey. My gun's pic is in the artical Mr Dewey also worked on president Teddy R. Royal Three barrel gun. I got in contact with Al Lewis by phone this year. He once had Mr. Dewey gun and sold it I bought it off the man son he sold it to twenty years ago the guns #1825. I also have the records where it went threw two more people in the late 1965-1967. You can look in DGJ and see a pic of Mr. Dewey holding one of his guns my gun is in the pic with the side by side and the single barrel trap gun. I wood like to find the gun he is holding. Besides Mr Dewey's gun I have three more drillings and one side by side. Researcher maybe we can talk by phone sometime I wood like to here about the book you have. Donnie Reels
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I did the two-part article on Hollenbeck/Three-Barel/Royal Gun Companies in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Thirteen, Issues 2 and 3, and a two-parter on Baltimore Arms Co. in Volume Ten, Issues 1 and 3.
The ledger goes up to 1829, but there is nothing entered for 1825, 26, 27 and 28. The other guns in the 182x range were shipped March to August 1910.
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Researcher as I herd it from Al and another gentleman in West Virgina. Mr. Dewey built the gun in his on gun shop the gun has a corse chericking pattern the resciver is done in a nice blue not casehardened like my marked guns I guess Mr.Dewey did not have the means to case harden. Or he may have done the gun in the last few months of operation and kelp the gun for himself till 1959. I do now he maid #1825 and the gun he is holding in the pic for himself. Al was a personal friend to Mr. Dewey and had seen the gun at his home in West Virgina. Mr.Dewey was up in years when Al meet him and he only had a one room gun shop where he had a lot of Three barrel gun parts. Al got all the barrels and parts when Mr. Dewey passed away in 1962.
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In the typed letters I have Mr. Dewey sold the gun #1825 to John Lang of California in 1959 one day after his fathers funeral. His father was a origional stockholder in the Three Barrels Gun Co. John lang Sr. was buried in West Virgina Mr. Dewey was at the funeral home and got to talking to John Lang Jr. and sold him one of his guns. I fill really lucky to one Mr Dewey gun. Researcher can you tell me more about the man in Florida and do you have any Three Barrel Gun Co. guns?
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