Gunman, I think your memory is correct. Mr. Harvey worked for,or at least listed the same address as Wilkinson. So maybe a tie in here. Oddly , I looked at the Harvey 1866 pat no. 1793 and could find no mention of a forend fastener of any type. Thus , I mentioned the Mathews patent [provisional] which seemed to include the forend topic.

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