Stan:
The reason I was asking if the middle initial could be construed as a “B”, [ correction, "H"] was on the off-chance that the gun had been owned by, transferred or gifted to, the grandson of William B. [correction, "H"] Hart, whose name was also William B. [correction, "H"] Hart. The grandson would have been 24 in 1918.
The senior Hart was the king-pin of Stanley Tool Works, in New Britain, Connecticut, following the retirement of company’s founder, Frederick T. Stanley. (“Tool Man” likely could elaborate on Hart’s influence on the company’s rise, during a career Hart had with it that spanned from 1854 to 1918.)
The Hart family has long had an enclave on Martha’s Vineyard, and a member of the family has told me that the family did have a lot of bird hunters, but he does not know if either William was one of them.
It is a long-shot, but may be worth scrutinizing that trigger guard, since you maintain a curiosity about the gun's former keeper.
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Last edited by Russell E. Cleary; 06-22-2021 at 06:15 PM..
Reason: should have used the "H" (not "B") as middle initial
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