aah, it is a twisted tale we weave when the gun companies of the late 19th and early 20th century's are discussed. especially when those in Norwich Connecticut are discussed, they were all in bed together. Merwin and Hulbert never made any firearms { they owned a large sporting goods store }, they only furnished their name to guns made by Hopkins and Allen. The fact that Merwin and Hulbert owned 50 percent of Hopkins and Allen and had a seat on their board of directors may have had something to do with it. All of them, Bacon, F&W, M&H, the list goes on and on, they were all in cahoots with each other.
In addition to the guns that bore their name, Forehand and Wadsworth had at least 18 other different names on the market, all were so called suicide specials.