Hate to ask the obvious but has anyone asked the company in question who they gave it to? The company I work for has been around since that era and I know we would have a record of such a gift. They probably have have an unofficial company historian who knows the answer but would be surprised anyone cared enough to ask.
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Registered Magnum .22 LR
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Will be in my safe shortly.It'll probably just show up discretely one day on GunBroker listed as an "old .22LR Kit Gun" and someone will snag it for $400.
The person who corresponded with S&W about the pair of revolvers was Mr. L. S. Laughlin, Manager, Industrial Relations Department, American Potash & Chemical Corporation in Trona.
Bill
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Didn't Am Potash & Chem become Kerr McGhee at some point? If so, they might have records. Joe
That's correct. K-M bought the company in 1967. I may take a run at them if my approach to the local history society in Trona doesn't pay off.
I was at the Trona History Society last year & researched the files they
had on the Trona Plant, nothing on the RM's.
Sounds like a S&W version of the Maltese Falcon....hopefully it turns up on this forum...
Right when you think you know S&W 5 screws......you hear about a 22 LR RM!!!!
Like many other long lost treasures, (Bugatti type 57 Atalante found in England) some older man, in his 80s to 90s probably owns it in his vast gun collection and has no idea as to its modern day value or its historical importance or rarity. Just some large 22 S&W he bought in 1957 off a guy...
Right when you think you know S&W 5 screws......you hear about a 22 LR RM!!!!
Like many other long lost treasures, (Bugatti type 57 Atalante found in England) some older man, in his 80s to 90s probably owns it in his vast gun collection and has no idea as to its modern day value or its historical importance or rarity. Just some large 22 S&W he bought in 1957 off a guy...
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CAJUNLAWYER
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L S Laughlin presented those two firearms to my grandfather as a reward for his patent on the extraction techniques that revoloutionized the industry that he signed over to the company. Quite frankly I wished gramps would'a kept the patent and liscensed it-would have made a lot more money for him. Anyway as the story goes, he made his way back east and upon his death I inherited both-had no idea they were so talked about.
Oh well, guess you learn something new every day.
Oh well, guess you learn something new every day.
opoefc
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David, Actually Barstow was a wide open town during WW2 with the various military basis around that area and probably had upwards of 25,000 residents in the area. In 1948 it was suffering from the depression of many small towns that had rapidly grown due to WW2 & the military, so when the military left, there was a lot of vacant buildings, etc. however it's "night life" was well known to the old timers in DV. I was there in 1948 as part of an Army unit surveying the Camp Irwin location ( Now Ft. Irwin) for possible use as a Calif. Nat'l Guard training base. The most nefarious waterhole was called "The Riverbottom" and was a dance hall, saloon & whore house located in the river bottom, just a few blocks north of the center of town. That's where my cousin took me to meet Scotty and several other old time DV prospecters & desert characters with whom he was well acquainted ( Seldon Seen Slim, Shorty Harris, etc. ) In 1951, the Army assigned me to Camp Irwin as an instructor, so I was able to spend some fun time exploring all the nooks and corners of DV with my military assigned Jeep (and Yes, you can get a Jeep stuck in the sand & rocks, regardless of 4WD. I wore out many shovels proving it!) maybe I should have borrowed one of those 20 mule teams! Mules don't get stuck, however they are a little slower than Jeeps on flat terrain. DV Scotty was a fun guy. When he came to town with some cash in his pocket, everbody he knew went on a binge with Scotty until the money ran out. I never met Al Johnson, although I stopped at "The Castle" several times to fill up the water jugs, etc. Later in the 70s, I stopped at the AmPot HQ in Trona to see if anyone knew anything about the two RMs, but drew a blank. Ed #15
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You mean that pair was valuable? I gifted them both to J. Edgar Hoover before he died. Crap, now we are looking for three Hoover guns?
When I was in college in the 1970's I worked with a cowboy here in Northern Nevada by the name of Walter P. Scott, the professed grandson of the more famous DV Scotty. At times we would go shooting an he had a .22 S&W pistol he said he got from his grandpa. Just wonder, if he still has it. I guess I need to renew an old freindship.
dick44
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I have tryed to be a good person so I think Lee has had those 2 RM all these years. But will not tell anyone that he has them!!!
dick44
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I looked, I don't have it. I looked again, I still don't have it. I swear.
Robinett_11B
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mkk41
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It was probably inherited by someone who thinks it's called a .22 CTG!
opoefc
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I'm still on the trail. Clues have been followed up, mostly to dead ends, however not all. The gun has changed hands a couple of times, through gifts & inheritance. I found an elderly lady who remembers her father, an AmPot executive, letting her shoot the gun as a child in Trona. As soon as I locate it, I'll have copies made by the new 3 D printers and sell them here on the Forum to members only! Ed.
opoefc
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The trail goes to the northerly suburbs of Los Angeles. The lady who shot the gun as a child told me that a nephew and a friend of the nephew came to their home shortly after her father passed away and took all the guns with them, including the .22 cal Reg Mag. She said the nephew lives in a LA suburb but she has lost contact over time and does not know the nephew's location now. Ed
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