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Originally Posted by Jay Gardner
Lefever made some beautifully crafted guns but they seem to be under appreciated as compared to Parker, Fox, and Smith guns. Why is that?
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my opinion is
one, that there are far fewer of them
and there are so many variations, the design, even within a model was often being changed, and then there were several changes to the ownership of the company (even though Fox, Parker and Smith changed ownership, the designs remained relatively unchanged)
Uncle Dan Lefever was a brilliant gun designer, but like so many, a terrible business man. every time he restarted the design changed (maybe because the patents went with the company)
it has been said that Lefever was not as interested in competing against the other American makers as much as he was in the English imports