Re: Ernest Hemingway's L.C. Smith .410 FWE Found in Cuba Archived Message
Posted by Joseph Plummer on October 5, 2015, 2:52 pm, in reply to "Ernest Hemingway's L.C. Smith .410 FWE Found in Cuba" |
That.410 Field Grade ejector Smith may have been a present from A. Harriman, founder of the Idaho Sun Valley Resort, pre WW2 era. He also gave Ernest a Cogswell and Harrison 12 bore hammer ejector gun, which later went to Hemingway's elder son, Jack Hemingway. I met Jack, aka "Bumby" in West Yellowstone, June 1989- at a FFF convention held there at the FFF museum. He told me that he still had it, but was not the hunter either of his step-brothers were. It is good to remember that many of Hemingway's possessions from Finca Vigia were stolen by Batista's Gestapo!!!
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