doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com Late one night about a month ago,

I was playing on EBay doing some key word searches and found a photo album that had twenty-four pages with about five of them showing pictures of early custom sporting rifles such as S.R. Griffin & Owen. I bid and won the scrap book and while waiting for it to arrive I asked the seller if they could tell me anything about where it came from. The seller told me that it was from his wife’s grandfather’s stuff and he then wrote me about a paragraph about the man in question. I wrote back and asked if this was “Henry” he wrote back and ask how in the world I could have know that. Long story short I now have a second photo album of custom guns and over 100 pages of correspondence between Henry and Townsend Whelen, the main subject custom guns and custom gunmakers. The family tells me there may be a lot more to come so I have my fingers crossed.

Mark, This one is for you and it's not the same rifle I sent you pictures of a couple years ago.

What a find!! I'm glad you got it,Michael.

I agree, it is a fantastic find, I wonder where those rifles are now.

As I am slowly working my way through everything with hopes that more will be on the way. I am sending copies of pictures and information to folks who I believe may be the present owners. All the Whelen letters will be sent to TW's Grandson Townsend Whelen Bowling who is working on preserving all of his writings. He will make copies for his archives.

fabulous

Kudos to you Michael. You have done more, I daresay, than any other individual to rescue, conserve, maintain, and disseminate data of this nature which otherwise would be lost to the four winds.