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Sometime last month, I took all the dividers out of my H-19 so that I could straighten them out. Behind them, I found an old, yellowed bit of paper containing a previous index of the DDs that had been in it (some of which were still present when I acquired it). I can almost certainly say that it is not original because it is done with a ballpoint pen, but it's still obviously old. The most interesting part is the slip that was straight-pinned to the index - it reads, "Margaret Deringer,476-3654, Old records".

Is this name or number familiar to anybody by chance? I know it's a long shot, especially considering that the number doesn't even have an area code, but...

Sorry if this is the wrong category for this. I didn't really know where to put it.

Sounds like a tip, passed along to the machine's previous owner...

Do you know where your H-19 lived it's life, prior to your ownership ?

Well, i got it from Northville, MI, but I have no idea where the guy I got it from obtained it. He just had planned on fixing it up but never got around to it.

Northville is in the (248) area code... the exchange 476 comes-up as "Farmington" in (248), and there appear to be some Deringers (Derringer) in Farmington...

Just a hunch...

That's interesting... I don't know why I never did that search myself...

winsleydale wrote:Sometime last month, I took all the dividers out of my H-19 so that I could straighten them out. Behind them, I found an old, yellowed bit of paper containing a previous index of the DDs that had been in it (some of which were still present when I acquired it). I can almost certainly say that it is not original because it is done with a ballpoint pen, but it's still obviously old. The most interesting part is the slip that was straight-pinned to the index - it reads, "Margaret Deringer,476-3654, Old records".

Is this name or number familiar to anybody by chance? I know it's a long shot, especially considering that the number doesn't even have an area code, but...

Sorry if this is the wrong category for this. I didn't really know where to put it.

I think that was an old girlfriend of mine. She was a "de(ad)-ringer" for Betty Grable... . Would you like me to ask if she wants it back..?? .

gramophone78 wrote:

winsleydale wrote:Sometime last month, I took all the dividers out of my H-19 so that I could straighten them out. Behind them, I found an old, yellowed bit of paper containing a previous index of the DDs that had been in it (some of which were still present when I acquired it). I can almost certainly say that it is not original because it is done with a ballpoint pen, but it's still obviously old. The most interesting part is the slip that was straight-pinned to the index - it reads, "Margaret Deringer,476-3654, Old records".

Is this name or number familiar to anybody by chance? I know it's a long shot, especially considering that the number doesn't even have an area code, but...

Sorry if this is the wrong category for this. I didn't really know where to put it.

I think that was an old girlfriend of mine. She was a "de(ad)-ringer" for Betty Grable... . Would you like me to ask if she wants it back..?? .

For real?

She might be this Margaret Deringer:
Origins of Inbred Mice - Page 4 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?id=mRyp1 ... er&f=false

Or one of these:
Margaret Deringer
Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington
Born: November 14, 1920
Died: August 01, 1985
Age At Death: 64

Margaret Mary Deringer
Pasadena, Harris County, Texas
Born: July 13, 1927
Died: May 12, 2010
Age At Death: 82

Margaret A Deringer
Cheswick, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Born: July 07, 1924
Died: August 17, 2010
Age At Death: 86