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Old 01-24-2013, 01:23 AM
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The "Secret Service Special" name was actually a trademark of the Fred Biffar Co., which was a mail order hardware company out of Chicago from the 1880s to about 1920. They were in the same type of business as Sears and Montgomery Ward.

As mentioned above, they sold top break pistols under that name that were made by either Iver Johnson, Harrington & Richardson, Hopkins & Allen, Meridian, Crescent and a few other off brand manufactures.
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