Who's would have ordered it?

[Tascosa Joe]

The closest geographic proximity to the S&W factory Gustav Dietz I found on the 1900 census was in New York City.

[Books OToole]

The closest geographic proximity to the S&W factory Gustav Dietz I found on the 1900 census was in New York City.

What can you tell me about him?

Books

[Tascosa Joe]

I will get my wife to pull him up on ancestry and see what we can find.  She is the genealogy  guru of the family.

[Tascosa Joe]

Gustave A. Dietz
Born 1883
Germany
Occupation: Machinist
Was a Border in Ernest Jones house.
His brother was also a border in the same house.

Probably too young to be the purchaser.