Good Morning,
I purchased a box of firearms related paperwork at auction recently and in it found a file of letters, memo's, notes and copies of the minutes of the meetings of Remington's Board of Directors starting with Mr. Pinney's confidential notice of his election to the office of vice president on 06/08/1916 and ending with his being granted a leave of absence on 12/04/1917. This file contains production and financial details as discused in the meetings and copies of contracts with the governments of Imperial Russia and His Britannic Majesty's as well as well as some information on production for the Government of France. There is also a very exacting engineering survey done on the plant in 1916 and some miscellaneous information on Bayonet and MG44 production. These appear to be the carbon copies that were sent to Mr. Pinney for his review and most are initialed by him. The cover letters that came with them are originals signed by George Bingham. This is a big folder and I have not read it in its entirety but the perspective it gives on the time is fascinating.
I also have a large folder of material that dates from the end on WW2 as Remington was getting back into peacetime footing. This file contains a copy of a refresher course for Remington salesmen. A copy of Vol.1, Number1 of The Remington Peters Law Enforcement Officer's Service Bulletin, May-June 1945. Remington News Letters from 1943 to 1945. Copies of Remington-Peters, Retail Merchandisers Club Bulletin from Vol.1 Number1 to Volume 4 Number2.
A carbon copy of "Some Historical & Human facts about the Birth and Growth of the Firearms Industry at Ilion, N.Y". by C.R. Bracher.
Some miscellaneous product brochures.
A copy of Remington's first customer opinion survey with a cover letter from C.R. Bracher dated 01/11/1945.
Any interest in this stuff?
Victor
Remington Records. H.H. Pinney
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Jay Huber
Re: Remington Records. H.H. Pinney
Victor we at the Remington Society are very interested in the Box. Could you loan it to us or can we purchase it for are archives and the price please. Thanks for contacting us. We are really interested in your find. Jay Huber RSA
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vlabonte
Re: Remington Records. H.H. Pinney
Dear Jay,
If you do not already have this info, it should not disappear into someone's private collection. It's very cool stuff. There's even a request from Mr. Bingham to forward a check made out to M.H. Dodge to cover Mr. Pinney's share of the lunch and parting gift, a clock, for Mr. Pryor when he left the company in December of 1916. His share of the lunch alone was nearly $5.00 at a time when working people didn't make that much in a day. That must have been quite a lunch!
I don't collect paper. You would have a much better idea of the rarity and value of this so make me an offer. I'd even consider a trade.
Victor
If you do not already have this info, it should not disappear into someone's private collection. It's very cool stuff. There's even a request from Mr. Bingham to forward a check made out to M.H. Dodge to cover Mr. Pinney's share of the lunch and parting gift, a clock, for Mr. Pryor when he left the company in December of 1916. His share of the lunch alone was nearly $5.00 at a time when working people didn't make that much in a day. That must have been quite a lunch!
I don't collect paper. You would have a much better idea of the rarity and value of this so make me an offer. I'd even consider a trade.
Victor
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Roy Marcot
Re: Remington Records. H.H. Pinney
Dear Victor,
I am the curator of the historical records of the Remington Society of America, an organization of 600+ members, whose ranks include collectors and historians. The organization is in its 28th year, and the archives we maintain is over 130 linear feet of materials including ledgers, reports, letters, photographs, advertisements, patents, etc., all directly related to the Remington Arms Company. I also head up the Remington Research Team, fourteen dedicated individuals who are the only ones permitted into the Remington plants to conduct primary research.
As an organization we would be very interested in acquiring the historical materials you possess.
Putting a price on these historical papers is an impossible task, since their true value is to a historian, not to a collector of firearms. Maybe you could give us an idea of what you are looking for, and if it is reasonable, we are interested.
Email me directly at roymarcot@msn.com or call me (Tucson, Arizona) at (520) 906-0716
Respectfully,
Roy Marcot
Remington Historian
Remington Society of America
I am the curator of the historical records of the Remington Society of America, an organization of 600+ members, whose ranks include collectors and historians. The organization is in its 28th year, and the archives we maintain is over 130 linear feet of materials including ledgers, reports, letters, photographs, advertisements, patents, etc., all directly related to the Remington Arms Company. I also head up the Remington Research Team, fourteen dedicated individuals who are the only ones permitted into the Remington plants to conduct primary research.
As an organization we would be very interested in acquiring the historical materials you possess.
Putting a price on these historical papers is an impossible task, since their true value is to a historian, not to a collector of firearms. Maybe you could give us an idea of what you are looking for, and if it is reasonable, we are interested.
Email me directly at roymarcot@msn.com or call me (Tucson, Arizona) at (520) 906-0716
Respectfully,
Roy Marcot
Remington Historian
Remington Society of America
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Jay Huber
Re: Remington Records. H.H. Pinney
Victor Roy is my fellow friend in Remington Research and that is why you heard from him..This by the way is whwre those files should wind up and as you say "not in the hands of a collector" Jay Huber