American Arms Co. Whitmore

[Researcher]

Here is a gun I wish someone would do a good article on for The Double Gun Journal.

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I especially like my gun's nice copper rivets!!

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1890 ad

1891 or later ad

We have had plenty of articles over the years on their George H. Fox side-swing hammer double of the 1870s and 80s and their cheap revolvers, but nothing on the nice hammerless doubles.

[bbman3]

Dave, very nice. Bobby

[Stan Hillis]

Boston ........... and Bluffton, ALA ???????? What the heck?

Neat gun Dave.

SRH

[Researcher]

There was an article on American Arms Co. in The American Rifleman, April 1970, by Elliot L. Minor, Curator of the NRA Museum. It covered the double barrel pistol, the George H. Fox patent side-swing hammer doubles, the revolvers, the semi-hammerless single barrel shotgun and the semi-hammerless double barrel shotgun. He mentions the Whitmore hammerless but couldn't find an example to examine?!? He goes on and on about various spellings of -- Whittmore -- Whittemore -- Whitmore. I don't know where he got this as it is Whitmore on A.E.'s patents, engraved on the bottom of the guns, in the magazine ads I've found, and on the patents for his E. Remington & Sons doubles back in the 1870s?!?

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Maybe bad typesetting in the old issues of Shooting and Fishing he referenced. According to an article in the August 6, 1891, issue of Shooting & Fishing, the company had a new, well lighted, factory 220 feet long by 70 feet wide in Bluffton, Alabama. However, it seems much production stayed in Boston as George H. Fox's estate when he died in 1901, included a lot of gun parts. Also the company had machinery in Boston which was sold to Marlin in 1901. American Arms Co. of Bluffton stopped paying their taxes in 1915 and their file at the State's internal revenue office is marked "Dead."