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Unread 07-10-2021, 11:04 AM   #41
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Found in a small northeast auction, purchased from a Tobin family member. Researcher did a fine article on it for Double Gun Journal.



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Unread 07-10-2021, 11:28 AM   #42
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Wow!…twice!
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Wilkes Barre made a few nice ones too
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Keith, here are a few Wilkes Barre guns.









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Very nice guns Daryl!





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What a wonderful time to have been alive, a shooter...and enough money!
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Wilkes Barre Gun Co., follow on to the Parry Fire Arms Co. --

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didn't make it to the 20th century.
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those guns are away out of my reach but I do like looking at them...charlie
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What years were the Wilkes-Barre and Parry guns made?
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Now that ya mention it I think they tapped out around 1895 and sold to Ithaca
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