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Great rifle. Congratulations on finding it.
However, unless WH Price found his way to Chicago, I don’t think he is S Man. He was born in Chicago...  WH Price being born in Chicago is very interesting. I have long felt that S Man was somehow associated with Marshall Fields in Chicago as an in-house gunsmith or by doing work for them.
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Great rifle. Congratulations on finding it.
However, unless WH Price found his way to Chicago, I don’t think he is S Man. I presume that you are referencing Michael Petrov, I wonder how certain he was that S-Man was based in Chicago, one man's speculation shouldn't become another man's fact.
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PhysDoc,
My thoughts on S Man are not based on Petrov’s work as hadn’t read his work until after I saw his collection at Amoskeag.
When I first saw the S Man rifle it reminded me of two rifles I briefly saw in a collection in Lake Forest, IL about 20 years earlier. The owner stated that they had been redone by the Marshall Fields shop.
When I mentioned it to gasgunner he said Petrov had thought that S Man may have been in the Chicago/Milwaukee area.
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PhysDoc,
My thoughts on S Man are not based on Petrov’s work as hadn’t read his work until after I saw his collection at Amoskeag.
When I first saw the S Man rifle it reminded me of two rifles I briefly saw in a collection in Lake Forest, IL about 20 years earlier. The owner stated that they had been redone by the Marshall Fields shop.
When I mentioned it to gasgunner he said Petrov had thought that S Man may have been in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. That is very interesting, I wonder if Michael knew of that bit of information.
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PhysDoc,
My thoughts on S Man are not based on Petrov’s work as hadn’t read his work until after I saw his collection at Amoskeag.
When I first saw the S Man rifle it reminded me of two rifles I briefly saw in a collection in Lake Forest, IL about 20 years earlier. The owner stated that they had been redone by the Marshall Fields shop.
When I mentioned it to gasgunner he said Petrov had thought that S Man may have been in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. That is interesting, I googled and found a facebook group, they posted an ad from 1935 announcing the opening of the gunshop in Marshall Field and it was being headed by a famous gunsmith. Whereas I believe the S-Man rifles were all very early sporters, maybe the "famous gunsmith" is the one that made them. I am not on facebook, but maybe someone on that group can tell us who the gunsmith or gunsmiths working there were. Marshall Field facebook group
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The gun room at Marshall Fields was held in very high regard as far as quality of merchandise and workmanship. The only gunsmith I know of by name is Jerry Matthews who worked there. After leaving Marshall Fields, Jerry worked out of Shot and Shutter/McHenry Gun Center in northern Illinois and became a part owner of the shop when he won it in a poker game. I think Jerry got out gunsmithing when the store was sold in the mid-70s and it became Schrank’s Smoke ‘n Gun West.
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As the owner of a number of S-man '03s and a Ross, this Mauser rifle has no S-man characteristics. The latest produced rifles I have in my list were from 1928.
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From the 1920 advertisements stating that C.H. Price had worked 15 years for Clabrough and Golcher remodeling of 1903's, timelines don't match up... so I still have more research to do.
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From the 1920 advertisements stating that C.H. Price had worked 15 years for Clabrough and Golcher remodeling of 1903's, timelines don't match up... so I still have more research to do. The link is for a possible obit for the owner.
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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My bad... I had a brain malfunction going back & forth between posts...
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