MMN who is this

[A.Merrill]

      A guy I know has a rifle marked on the top barrel flat, MMN in script. The script looks so neat it could be a stamp. Brass BP & TG, P lock, 1 lock bolt with brass washer Very plain gun. It was a fullstock but forend is missing, been rounded off at forearm. About 40 cal. Looks like Ohio to me, thin stock.       THANKS   AL

[scooter]

One picture better than 1000 words. There are not many gunsmiths in Sellers, American Gunsmiths, names he copied from the research done by others or the tiny bit he actually did himself. In OH makers, Martin Newcomer comes to mind but I just checked Hutslar's 5 vols on OH Gunsmiths + Allied Tradesmen and no middle initial seen. I did not go w/ a fine tooth comb but I did not see any MMN names at all. Going back to Hutslar I cannot say that I can find any MMN. Although Old  Frank pulled out from others 25,000+ names there remain those [a] no one has yet discovered those in books that Franks + his heirs have not yet copied from. As to location where gun was made, pictures always help + occasionally strike a chord in 1 of us/