Full disclosure. That Norvell-Shapleigh letter came from Roy Marcot's book Remington "America's Oldest Gunmaker" on page 125, credited to the Ken Waite, Jr. collection. A shame it didn't get in to Charles Semmer's book Remington Double Shotguns.
The first of the Crawford C. Loomis patents, Patent No. 1795223 granted March 3, 1931, that Remington attributes to the Model 32 actually shows a trigger-plate action side-by-side double. A couple or three decades ago, Dennis Sannita at the museum at the factory at Ilion hauled out such a gun for me to examine.
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