Way cool!!! Waverly is not on Joe Vorisek's list of Crescent trade names, and this gun appears to be a step up from H&D Folsom's work! And, Waverly Arms Corp. is not in the index for Joe's Shotgun Research Newsletter. Actually Joe does show Waverly Arms Co. with a date of 1905 as an off shoot of D.M. Lefever Arms Co. in Defiance, Ohio, in 1905 with a question mark and only connected by a dashed line. Where is R.R. when we need him? Sure looks to be the product of some short lived venture one of Uncle Dan's sons may have been involved in after the demise of Uncle Dan and the various iterations of D.M. Lefevers struggling attempt to build his box-frame guns.
Now I got it! In Robert W. Elliot's book Uncle Dan Lefever -- Master Gunmaker in his chronology of the family on page 119 he lists Frank as working at Waverly Arms Co. before he goes to Moundsville, West Virginia, to be plant superintendant for the Three-Barrel Gun Co.
Last edited by Researcher; 11/16/08 01:22 PM.
