Foxcreek,
So what's your point, other than to complain? What you describe is a common thing in any business over that time period.
C Sharps went belly up in the 1880's, and was resurrected 100 years later with a privately owned company buying the rights to the name and logo. They build some of the finest single shot rifles available today in Montana. Are you saying that because they are not the "original" Sharps company that we shouldn't buy their products?
If a company is making a legitimate effort (and succeeding) in producing the product line of a direct linear predecessor (be it Colt, Winchester, Marlin, Remington, etc.), and keeping an icon alive, then good for them. I'll support them to the best of my financial ability.