Thanks for these posts, Drew. It's off-topic, but, as a Lefever lover, I can't help pointing out that Drew's post on the 1895 Madison Square Garden Sportsmen's Show has a wonderful description of Uncle Dan himself holding forth at the Lefever Arms booth, proud not only of his "automatic hammerless" shotgun, but of the blue ribbons for best American hammer gun that his Nichols & Lefever guns had won 17 years earlier in St. Louis.

Rich