The "connection" to Ithaca Gun Co. was that Edward George Parry had been a barrel brazier at Ithaca and then went out on his own and produced a hammer double for a couple of years. This is the higher grade version with his rear-acting under-bolt and Laminated steel barrels --
McIntosh did a little piece on Wilkes Barre Gun Co. in
The Double Gun Journal, Volume Two, Issue 1, pages 72, 73 and 74.
His lower quality gun just had the Greener cross-bolt. From the 1892 S, D & G catalogue --
At any rate by 1892, Parry Fire Arms Co. was belly up, and some investors bought the remains and moved them to Wilkes Barre, PA, where they continued to build Edward George Parry's hammer gun, and also brought out a hammerless double based on Joseph Tonks Patents No. 333,795 and No. 514,574. An A-grade --
A C-Grade --
Albert J. Aubrey was the factory supt. at Wilkes Barre.
Hybrid Mode