Mystery Choke Devices

[Alfred Houde]

In an earlier reply I mentioned that the National Museum of the Marine Corps holds in their collection a toolbox with approximately 200 Cutts prototypes, shop copies, tools and gauges owned by Cutts.

After the holidays I heard back from my former colleague, and he provided some images. I include them here. These are classic Cutts prototypes and leads me to believe that the mystery device in question is Cutts handy work. I can't be 100% certain, but the consistencies are certainly there.

Cutts had their hands in a lot of things, so who knows? The fourth image is called a Bird Hawk, which I thought was pretty cool.