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Good Morning,

Thanks for the responses.

Harold, when I saw your hang tags it caught my eye that the handwriting looked to be the same as on mine. Now, I am no forensic handwriting specialist, but I would say they are by the same person. After holding them side by side as best I could. I wonder if someone would have access to the person's name that would have filled out the hang tags? Like the title of this thread, "this is pretty cool". Is there any information on that person?

Also, would anyone have information that would tell us who would have signed the letter? The signature is hard to decipher. The letter came from the New York sales room at 25 Murray Street. A sales office in New York?

My next step is to get a letter to show where it was shipped. It is in the serialization book, and all the information matches so a letter should be no problem.

Again, thanks for the responses, help and info.

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[Bill Murphy]

A pretty poor reproduction, but it seems that Henry L. Carpenter, chief of office operations, signed your letter. The Parker Story may have some information on him. Your gun is too late to have an order book entry, so there is little chance for you to find out where your gun was shipped.

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Bill,

Thanks for your response and information. The last name of Carpenter was a name my wife and I thought it could be, but couldn't tell for sure.

I have to ask, what do you mean by a "pretty poor reproduction"? I presume you mean the signature was done by a secretary? I never thought about a person (other than a government official) having someone sign a letter for them in the mid twenties.

Why would this gun, serial number 213XXX, be too late to letter with a ship to? The last letter I got was on a VHE serial number 230XXX, would that not be later than 213XXX by four years?

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Bill,

Please disregard the last part of my last post. I looked at the wrong gun to get the serial number 230XXX. The gun I got the last letter with a ship to was a much earlier gun. Please accept my apologies for doubting you?

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[Bill Murphy]

I was referring to the fact that the signature was not easy to read from the pictures in this thread. I think your display is outstanding. Have you tried to identify the person the letter was written to? A brief google search identifies F.H. Murray as the Superintendent of the Poinset State Park in Sumter. I'm sure more searches will turn up much more information.

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Bill,

I never thought of reproduction meaning the item going across the world wide web and being viewed on another's computer. I guess that would indeed be reproduction. See, you're never too old to learn.........to retain might be another story however.

I've been working on the original owner's information. I've also found a Murray that was part of an engineering firm in Sumter in the mid twenties. I'll keep looking.

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[Bill Murphy]

Yes, Mr. Murray was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Bill,

I have finally felt like doing some more research on this, and it would seem that not only was Mr. Murray an engineer, he wrote books on physics and worked at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

He also was one of six men that put up $10,000.00 each to purchase the island on which Edisto beach is located. Quite interesting. If all my test come out good and I get through the doctor appointments this week, I'll jump back on this.

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