Marking on underside of upper rib.

[B. Dudley]

Actually, In looking at the end of it VERY closely, There is more. First letter after Brown & Co. Looks like either "U." or "J." Next looks sure to be an "S". The nest looks more like a "G". Following Likely an "O" or "U" and finally I can very faintly make out what looks like part of an "N". Maybe the final part is "GUN".

It surely isn't ".COM"

Being that half of evertyhing is off the rib, it is so hard to tell.

[edgarspencer]

There was a Brown Manufacturing Co., in Winsted, CT from about 1870 till the depression.