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Yup I know exactly who made it! I have the same case. My father purchased custom made in 1982. Mine has a maker plate on it. The maker is James G. Terrell out of Long Beach Ca. Here is photos of mine. All the hardware matches. I even have the original purchase order!

Parts arrived in perfect condition! Thank you!!

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It looks like, if you look really close on the mag release, you can see evidence of the hole being filled in on the paddle area. It looks like they couldn’t blend the checkering right after filling in the hole and you can see where the hole was. That makes me suspect the control levers as well.

Good questions!!! That correlation with the 1939 French purchase could be correct! Could that mean there is possibly 3000 copies of this handbook to go with each gun sold?? If so, you would think it would have been seen and documented already. The part I like the most is that this handbook shows that there is still things to discover and learn!

Here is the French 1921 handbook I just acquired. What’s really fascinating is that it has the 31 Nassau Street address. I have not seen this handbook in any books including the paper items book by David Albert and Mike Sigillito. That books shows one with the 302 Broadway address and one with a 80 Broadway address This book appears to coincide with the 2nd edition 1921 handbook. It has 7 chapters, includes all image plates as the 2nd edition including the high powered ballistic data plate, and is 61 pages long. There is no date printed in it. Having the Nassau address I assume it’s somewhere around 1936 to fit in around the time as the catalogs of the same address. Has anyone else seen this handbook before?? Really interesting find!!

Kind of the same story here! The story I got is his friend is getting old and selling off his collection. He liked collecting old manuals and such. The seller acquired his collection wholesale and is selling things off. I am also getting what appears to be an undocumented French 1921 handbook! I’ll post pictures when it comes in. Hopefully tomorrow!

Thanks all! I got really lucky on this. It was for sale by someone that’s not a Thompson collector and not connected here. A find in the “wild” so to speak lol!!

Just picked up this 2nd edition 1921 handbook! Thanks to David Albert and Mike Sigillito for the book on paper items which I used heavily to learn about it before purchase, and big thanks to Tom Davis for helping me verify it! Some creases but overall condition is fantastic!! Thought everyone would like to see some of the pictures in it.

I found one not too long ago. Kinda beat up and feed lips are damaged. Not modified for semi. I had been searching for a little while to get one. Not super rare, but not common either!

I hope the buyers get exactly what they paid for but I suspect they are in for some surprises.

I find it very suspect that the seller states in the conditions that they will not answer any requests for more photos.

some one is definitely getting high on their own supply on that one!!!

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