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.
Last edited by Researcher; 05/15/09 03:16 PM.
