If I remember right Phil Kroll once owned one of these. He did an article in the Lefever newsletter on them. It was about 8 or 10 years ago.
Again, if I can remember right Phil felt that they were built when the crossbolt guns were built in Defiance.
I do remember that Phill had a picture of the lockplate and they looked like the early Lefever Lockplates.
Bob



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