interesting find under buttplate

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I posted this on a local hunting site in case next of skin surfaces....
This was rolled up and inserted in a hole under the plate of an old Cooey REPEATER. REPEATER is the model name, pre-dates the model 60 with smaller but similar design. This one was made between 1931-33, after which the model name changed slightly. I should have taken a "before picture", as the gun looked pretty sorry, smoky blackish all over and pretty much seized with black gum. But looks like she'll be fine before long, will photo after. First dibbs goes to a descendant of the named, if one surfaces. Student doesn't count!

Distant relative picked up the document a couple weeks ago as he has a relative putting some family stuff together. I had a drive out through New Ross and "The Forties" recently and thought of the old lady and how remote it must have been back then, and the winters were worse. It still is a very sparsely populated area.
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Did a quick google, and her name appears in the obit of John Henry Jones (Halifax Herald 10-11-2004) as a pre-deceased sister.
 
These are some of the most rewarding searches one can make. I have located the aged son of a previous owner in Egypt for one gun, and the nephew of a previous owner who had died a month previously for another. For a third, I found an obituary for one previous owner dated in the 1950's.

In this case, there could be descendants who might be interested in the paper and the history of the gun, but don't be surprised if they couldn't care less (if there's no money involved).
 
That must have been either a war time regulation or a Nova Scotia regulation. I never heard my father talk about registration in the '40s so either that wasn't the case or every body around here ignored it. I know that up into the '50s some of us carried handguns into the field to hunt. It was supposedly legal at that time.

Jim
 
There was registration during WW2. No idea how thorough it was. I've seen ST T stamped in stocks. St. Thomas, ON.
 
OntJim said:
That must have been either a war time regulation or a Nova Scotia regulation. I never heard my father talk about registration in the '40s so either that wasn't the case or every body around here ignored it. I know that up into the '50s some of us carried handguns into the field to hunt. It was supposedly legal at that time.

Jim
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War time regulation.
No, it wasn't legal to hunt with a revolver/pistol. Enforcement was very slack, so we just did it.
 
In ON in the '60s, it was allowed, along with field firing.

It is really interesting to find a neat gun, along with its history. Too often the thing is valued only as a specimen, and its history is lost.
I have a Luger, and on the inside of one grip is scratched "JULY 10 43 AVOLA SICILY". I think I know who brought it back. I got it from the estate of the chap who registered it, and he had a friend who served in the British army.
Have a Bisley Prize rifle, won by a Canadian in 1899; also managed to locate a photograph of the Canadian Kolapore team from that year, and the winner is in the photo. The DCRA and UK NRA have all the records of this chap's participation.
 
I bought a .348 Lee loader off flea bay with an intersting inscription under the cover " This here loader is the sole property of Sixshooter Rotten, Taylor N. Dakota, 1966 November"
Always the curious type I wikied up Taylor and in a longshot I emailed them and asked if they knew anyone there who might be this person (pop 200 iirc)
Sure enough a reply!
Sixshooter (Oscar) had sadly passed but his sister was alive and well and wintering in Vegas!
Could you just imagine if I followed through and found the Mod 71!
 
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