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Originally Posted by Muley Gil
I believe he was an ordnance inspector at the time.
I checked wikipedia and Thompson graduated from West Point in 1882 and was assigned to Ordnance in 1890. He stayed there until retirement in 1914.
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I know, I got that too and quite a bit more from various pages dedicated to him.
Kelley S. Morse's tenure as inspector at Army Ordnance overlapped Thompson's. 1893 to 1915.
Still does not explain the elaborate carved round top with JTT, only one half, on guns apparently inspected by Morse's people.