One of the few guns to tell me a story was a derringer I restored marked A.J. Plate, San Francisco.
Henry Derringer sued old AJ (and won) because he was copying and spuriously marking derringers "H.Derringer, Phil." on the west coast. As I remember the story, Slotterbek , who had made derringers for Derringer in Phil, moved to SF and went to work for Plate, making... You guessed it, he knew how to make them perfectly, and made some of the finest gun ever made in America. (also can't remember if there are two R's or three in deringer? SpellCheck says three)
Last edited by SDH-MT; 09/06/11 08:36 PM. Reason: spellign
