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According to Blue Book, Lefever Arms made guns from 1885 til 1916 when Ithaca bought them out. Although they say that Ithaca "kept Lefever shotguns in production" I think that when the Nitro Special was introduced in 1921 that they were only getting some advertising value out of the name, the NS has little if anything in common with Lefever designed guns. In 1934 Ithaca brought out the Lefever Grade A, which I have never seen and know nothing about.
Mr Lefever started up another company of his own, D.M. Lefever & Son, but it did not last long and those guns are scarce and expensive.
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