Hi Guys: Does the page-Lewis 22 single shot ring a bell with anyone?

my Wife and I were at a gun show and we both spotted this little single shot at the same time, It was a bet on the spendy side. The vendor said
they were only made for a few years and the tang sight was O.E. to the rifle. The vendor also said it was made in 1921. 

Thanks Randy

Grant's book Still More Single Shot Rifles has a about a page on the Page Lewis. it also says that there is more in Boys Single Shot Rifles. 
The gist is three models A, B, C or Olimpic model. There was a bolt action D also. Says not many made but production numbers are not known.

40 Rod

          I've read somewhere that the "Lewis" of Page & Lewis was the same family that gave us the Lewis Machinegun.  Leadball

Thank you for all the input-I will post the Picture

Thanks again Randy

Randy,

According to DeHaas the tang sight was supplied with the Olympic Model. Yours appears identical to that illustrated in DeHaas's book. This no doubt accounts for the slightly higher price of the Olympic Model.

Harry

Hello Randy,
Sadly there is no mention of a rubber cup on the Tang Sight in the DeHaas book, so the answer is very much 'up in the air'. 

I'd scan the four pages relating to this rifle action for you, but sadly my scanner decided last month that it no longer wanted to co-operate with either me or the computer. I'm sure someone in the USA could help you out by scanning the relevant pages and then Emailing them to you.

Regards,

Harry

Randy,

Your Page-Lewis seems to have a lever that is fabricated from 2 pieces of steel probably soldered together. The pictures in the DeHaas book shows a one-piece lever. What few of these I've seen had the fabricated lever. The Page-Lewis is one boy's rifle I've always wanted, but never managed to get. You lucky to have on in such good condition.

From the Kimmel book on Savage/Stevens and the Frank DeHaas book:

Page was a bookkeeper with the J Stevens & Company in 1885. In 1886, the company reorganized under new management as J Stevens Arms & Tool Company with Irving H Page as secretary. After Joshua Stevens retired in 1895, Page bought out his interests in the company and was with the company until he retired 1916. 

Note it's during this time that Harry Pope was at Stevens and their reputation blossomed. If the famous story of Pope throwing a hammer at the "boss" and walking out is true, it probably wasn't thrown at Page. Perhaps it was Charles Fay, son of one of the founders, who was the general superintendent. Anyway, it was Page that was at the helm during the golden age.

Irving Page and George Lewis formed the Page-Lewis Arms Company around 1920 and was sold to Stevens in 1926. It's likely that Lewis actually designed the action, since Page always seemed to be more of a businessman into finance, etc. Also Lewis later went on to Winchester as a gun designer for many years, and then to High Standards before WWII. After the war, he retired briefly and died. 

With many firearms companies located in the Connecticut River valley, most of the important mangers/designers/inventors probably knew each other and floated from company to company over a career. 

Merry Christmas,
Ron

I forgot to add that while George Lewis was at Stevens, he also designed an ejector for the 1894 favorite (US Patent 939,142), and the locking system that was used in the underlever crackshot (US Patent 1,059,477). 

I promise this is my last post on Page-Lewis!

Regards, Ron