Two Consecutively Numbered Cone Hammers

[cdmech]

Very nice! What's the story?
Marc

[alvin]

Originally Posted by cdmech

What's the story?

Heard a collector Ralph Merrill? #973 came from his collection. I guessed that he has been in this field for long time, otherwise, it's impossible to have so many rare broomhandles in the collection. As we've noticed, some variations are hard to come in any condition, and he got almost all of them -- there were two SYSTEM MAUSERs, five 20-shots, three carbines, and "countless" number of 6-shots (I did not count).

Probably he knows where his guns came from... this one was not an English Conehammer because it's too early and because of its condition. It's probably not a Russian broomhandle either, I assumed Russian CH seldom flowing into the U.S. The history of this piece is lost.