Pope on 1891 (?) Remington
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Here is the Pope S & W in its case including a gold medal from the 1908 (London) Olympics like the one the original owner earned.
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My take on the cased S&W is "Lawd, lawd, what some of you people do find!"

Bill Lawrence

Third Model single shot 22lr target pistol, lettered sent to Victor H Wesson, Vice President & Shop Superintendent of Smith & Wesson. Victor was grandson of D B Wesson, son of Joe Wesson, & father of Dan Wesson & Doug Wesson. The pistol has one of a kind target grips, grooved trigger, & an Olympic Chamber.

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General George Patton was on the 1912 team. His diverse interest and training in sports made him a natural for the Olympic modern pentathlon—which comprises fencing (one-touch épée), 200 meter freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting and a 3,200 meter cross country run. At the age of twenty-six, Lieutenant Patton competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, the year the modern pentathlon was introduced. Of forty-two competitors he finished in fifth place, and might have earned a medal had it not been for a controversy in the pistol-shooting event. The judges ruled that Patton completely missed the target with one of his shots, while he argued he was so fine a marksman that one of the bullets went through an existing hole. Despite his failure to earn a place on the podium it was a remarkable showing as he had little training as a swimmer and his Olympic preparation was really only his military training at West Point!