Pete;
Thanks for putting up the pics, as I am not set up on a picture hosting site. One can plainly see from these drawings the application & issuance dates as well as that they show a small hook gun with plate mounted sears. I have a 12ga G #29,471 with large hook & frame mounted sears. Per Elliot's estimated chronology this should date to about 1899, which is also the year he estimates as the beginning of the large hook guns. As best as I can see in the pic where the Waverly hook differs from the LAC large hook is in the extractor cam portion. Here it more closely resembles the D M Lefever guns to me. I highly suspect it would be rather interesting to know all the legal ramifications transpiring between Lefever Arms Co & the D M Lefever Co during it's brief existence.
