Posted by Researcher on February 17, 2015, 10:00 am, in reply to "Re: Tournament shotgun"
My Tobin articles were published in Volume Five, Issue 1, and Volume Eight, Issue 1, of The Double Gun Journal; Volume 39, Number 12, May 1994 of The Gun Report; and Volume 34, Number 3 of (the Canadian Journal of) Arms Collecting.
Tobin Arms Mfg. Co. (Ltd) seem to have made a lot of guns "for the trade" such as these marked TOURNAMENT. I don't know who the TOURNAMENT guns were made for. I've received letters and pictures of obviously Tobin guns with names of various companies from as far away as Australia. I've also received letters from collectors in Australia describing Tobin guns marked for W.E. Ekins, Adelaide.
Frank's Grandson told me of his Grandfather giving him a big box full of Tobin Arms Mfg. Co. correspondence, when he was a child during the Great Depression, and he removed the stamps for his collection and threw the rest away!! But, he recalled getting stamps from all over the world.