I received my letter on RP #318170. When Mr Jinks gave me a ship date, he mentioned that the revolver was a special order. The letter makes no mention of that. The revolver shipped in 1920. Is is possible that there might be an original invoice available that might indicate for whom it was ordered?

Thanks

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

Email who did the letter and ask about the special order. The invoice can always be checked again and should have been looked at in order to have done the letter in the first place.

Bill Cross

It occurs to me the special order was placed by the same entity to whom the gun was shipped-----at least that's my recollection of those which were in my collection. My collection was targets---from the beginning through to the mid 1950's. The split was about 60% pre-war, 40% post; and a good quarter to a third of the pre-war were shipped to individuals---and a significant number of those were special orders.

That said, one of them (a Straight Line) apparently shipped to an individual turned out to be what I have come to call an example of "Shipping Clerk Shorthand". It was shipped to "G. Ward Hasner (no address available)"----an individual who I supposed was a famous target shooter of the time. Alas, I could not find a single word about him whatever!

Time passed, until one day when I was doing nothing even remotely akin to this gun, or that famous shooter, I came across mention of a Geller-Ward & Hasner Hardware Co.---a distributor of firearms and sporting goods---and apparently a rather large one, given they had a line of shotguns branded with their name.(!!!)

I was not amused---but I learned a lesson!

Ralph Tremaine

The only thing "special" about it was it was done in nickle.

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Don Mundell

My letter says blue, which was it?

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760