B French,
Thank you for letting honesty overcome political correctness. I think Chuck is already aware that the Miller/Howland change over was not cut and dry. Didn't Harry Howland ALSO do some similar creative patent circumventing in order for Ithaca to begin production of the model 37 slide action shotgun? Isn't this what Alexander Brown did to Baker's patents for LC Smith (in the beginning)?
I would love to know what circumstances created Ithaca's falling out, surrounded the most fruitful $$$ patent in the history of SxSs, with it's inventor Emil Flues...