Two Maine shipped .22Third Model Perfected Single Shot Pistols reunite after 109 yrs?

mrcvs · Oct 1, 2022

Maybe? It depends on how fast the first one sold, I suppose. No 6359 shipped 07 Feb 1913, No 6559 shipped 12 Feb 1913, both to Edwards & Walker Co, 5 Monument St, Portland, Maine. If No 6359 didn't sell within a week or so, these two very well have been in a display case together at one time. In the photograph, No 6359 is on the top and No 6559 is on the bottom. I know that the middle pistol also shipped in Feb 1913, No 6519, let's see if about the same time frame and also the same shipping destination? Letter should arrive in a few weeks.

I have several Smith & Wesson revolvers & pistols with a Maine shipping destination. Far more exciting than somewhere like Chicago or New York City.

Now, the question is, who has No 6272, which also shipped with No 6359?

bob1956 · Oct 1, 2022

Edwards and Walker was an industrial supply company. I vaguely remember it can't remember when they closed their doors.

mrcvs · Oct 12, 2022

The letter arrived yesterday for this third .22 Third Model Perfected Single Shot pistol that shipped in February 1913. (Thank you, clubgunfan for the fast factory letter turnaround time!)

Serial number 6519 did NOT ship to Maine, it went to 302 Broadway, New York City. Schoverling, Daly, & Gales.

https://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/schoverlinggunsletter1.jpg

Can you imagine a shop selling firearms at Broadway in NYC today?

Nonetheless, here are three .22 Third Model Perfected Single Shot pistols I randomly purchased that shipped within 12 days of each other.

It appears that 302 Broadway is in the heart of Fordham University. I imagine that's a gun free zone now. And a firearms shop once existed there. How times have changed!

A Half-Century After 302 Broadway Shut Its Doors, Memories Abound

Vincent Building, 302 Broadway (1943-1961) | Buildings | Fordham Law School

mrcvs · Oct 12, 2022

And here's the policy regarding firearms, and any other conceivable weapon, for that matter, at Fordham University:

https://www.fordham.edu/student-lif...-z-listing/weapons-ammunition-and-explosives/

I wonder how many individuals at Fordham University right now realize there was once a place to purchase firearms in that location? I would guess some revisionist history might come into play.

rct269 · Oct 12, 2022

I guess I should count my blessings I'm so old I was on the pistol team in college----and could keep guns in my room---and could carry them to and from. I wonder if any schools have shooting teams any more? Actually, I'm thinking that's a really dumb question----but not a bad idea.

Ralph Tremaine

And that reminds me of an episode when I was a junior in high school----chemistry class. I had a .38 in a shoulder holster under my jacket. The teacher saw it, and asked, "You boys going shooting after school?"------and following my affirmative reply, he said, "Have a good time!"

rct269 · Oct 13, 2022

This goes back maybe 15 years or so, but a grandson in Memphis was on his high school trap team. I attended one practice session during a visit------to see the team members all dressed in their team uniforms---as per their coach's wishes----dark blue slacks/white shirts/black shoes------all but one. He was dressed in shorts, a leather vest, and cowboy boots. He had a gazzilion dollar Perazzi (sp?) shotgun slung over his shoulder. When it came his turn at the line (to shoot doubles), he sauntered to the line, lowered his gun, loaded it, and called for his targets--------------without closing the gun!! He closed the gun at the launching of the targets, fired from the hip, hit both birds, opened the gun, ejecting both empties with a loud CLICK, and sauntered back to his place----with a very noticeable smirk on his face.

The moral of this story is, When you got it, you got it----and you can make your own rules----and get away with it!!

Ralph Tremaine

Wiregrassguy · Oct 13, 2022

And that reminds me of an episode when I was a junior in high school----chemistry class. I had a .38 in a shoulder holster under my jacket. The teacher saw it, and asked, "You boys going shooting after school?"------and following my affirmative reply, he said, "Have a good time!"

When I was in high school, we often brought our guns to school so we could go directly to the fields for hunting after school. The principal often asked us to bring the guns to his office so he could admire them. I do not recall ever hearing about a school shooting.

MHF · Oct 13, 2022

Wiregrassguy said:
When I was in high school, we often brought our guns to school so we could go directly to the fields for hunting after school. The principal often asked us to bring the guns to his office so he could admire them. I do not recall ever hearing about a school shooting.

Hell no there were no school shootings. No gun free zones!

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