Ah well Dear Readers, it appears that the Merwin & Hulbert Saga may be drawing to a close.
After relieving Friend Art of his duties, Mike Blanc attempted to move forward with what appeared to be the build of
at least 5 prototype open tops. He had promised to keep the Faithful informed via the Merwin & Hulbert website
Forum, and appeared (at least on the forum) to be attempting to make good somehow on pistol deliveries,
even without ever demonstrating a working prototype or posting photos of any completed pistols.
But at last glance when I dropped in at the beginning of April, Mike seemed to have stopped responding around the beginning
of March.
Now, most interestingly, the Merwin and Hulbert website does not seem to be up at this time:
http://www.merwinhulbertco.com/however we can see from Whois
http://whois.domaintools.com/merwinhulbertco.com that the domain name is still owned by
Registrant:
Sharps Rifle Company, Inc.
109 East 17th Street
Cheyenne, WY 82001
and the server IP pings as "live"
and this site shows that they had "some" traffic in the last month:
http://urlspy.co.uk/www.merwinhulbertco.com#visitorsinterestingly the sharps rifle website is also unwell
http://sharpsriflecompany.com/As is their facebook page where a fellow is asking if they exist, since he bought one of their AR clones:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sharps-Rifle-Company/164653802115and lastly, the Glenrock Independant reports upon the untimely demise of A-Square :
"A-Square defaults on lease–CEO closes doors, proposes new business"
Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:44 am
http://www.douglas-budget.com/glenrock/article_423700e2-63c6-11e1-b007-0019bb2963f4.htmlAnd the town council approves Sharps taking over the lease
"Sharps Rifle Company, Inc. signs lease for former A-Square buidling"
Friday, March 30, 2012 11:43 am
http://www.douglas-budget.com/glenrock/article_d3628d36-7a8f-11e1-8d4b-001a4bcf887a.htmlAt least one can find "something" about Sharps Rifle out there:
http://www.truthisbinary.com/Sharp/principals.htmland yet the Town Council seems to be oblivious that A-Square, Sharps Rifle, and Merwin and Hulbert were all ... ummm.. how can I put this delicately...
Related!
That's it, we shall call them "related" .
so sad for those who sent money.
yhs
prof marvel