Powell and Clement 1896 -1897 Catalog (Cincinnati Ohio).Montgomery Ward 1895 & Company Catalog - Firearm Section.
Clabrough & Golcher 1895-6 Catalog (San Francisco).Storrs & Candee Sporting Goods Catalog 1894 (Hartford, CT).Squires Sportsmen's Supplies 1891 Catalog (NY) Von Lengerke & Detmold 1890 Gun Catalog (NY).Harder 1890 Illustrated Gun Catalogue & Price List, Williamsport, PA EC Meacham Arms Company 1885 Gun & Sport Goods Catalog, St Louis.Turner & Ross 1883 Fire Arms Gun Catalog (Boston).American Inventions and Improvements 1880 In Breech-Loading Small Arms, Heavy Ordinance and other Munitions of War.Some other catalogs featuring Baker Firearms products: Ellis Baker died in 1899 and on 12-24-1919 the gunmaking part of the business was sold to H&D Folsom of Meridan?, CT About 150,000 Baker Guns were produced prior to the Folsom takeover, Folsom number do not exist. Meanwhile, in 1889 WH Baker died, the plant was destroyed by fire and the company moved to Batavia, NY. The new concern was called Syracuse Forging and Gun Company from 1887-8 (when The New Baker Gun came out) until the early 1890, when the name was changed to Baker Gun and Forging Company. and Baker returned to Syracuse to join with his brother, Ellis, who had Syracuse Forging Co incorporated that year. He lasted there until 1887 whenwhen the company became the Ithaca Gun Co. In 1883 Baker helped start WH Baker Gun Works with LH Smith. In 1880 he left the partnership with Smith and Smith formed the LC Smith Co. In 1879 he joined L C Smith to form W H Baker and Company. W H Baker was on his own until 1878-9 as W H Baker Co. (Folsom), Batavia Leader (Top Right), Ithaca Gun Co., Two Bolt Hammergun, Grade B (Bottom Left), Baker Gun & Forging Co.If you own a gun made between 19 you may be able to research the original purchaser through the records on file at Griffin & Howe for Abercrombie & Fitch and Von Lengerke and Detmold - Click Here for more information and a list of available makes. Fox patent Side-Swing (Top Left), Baker Gun Co. And since demand was high, the prices of those guns quickly climbed out of reach. But that aside, finding a quick, light double suitable for woodcock or grouse in any of the more common grades, from any of the great names, was tough. Fox, that company probably made more light upland guns than any of the others. According to Michael McIntosh, who chronicled the return of the side-by-side in both books and magazines, and wrote a volume devoted to the A.H. This was exactly the problem my skeet-shooting acquaintance ran into with his Stevens 311. Since this was the beginning of the move to non-toxic (originally steel) shot, few people hunted ducks with them, and hunting grouse with them was a forlorn hope. They had long barrels, tight chokes, and too much drop. Smiths were originally intended primarily as duck guns. The market for side-by-sides in the 1980s and ’90s consisted largely of upland-game hunters. Around the same time, Marlin tried to market a boxlock bearing the L.C. In the 1960s, Savage sold a “Fox” that was, in reality, just a spiffied-up Stevens 311. At various times, the famous names were attached to guns that bore little resemblance to the originals. It lasted only a couple of years, produced few guns, and disappeared in a thicket of unpaid bills.Īmerica’s original double-gun companies-Parker, Fox et al.-had all been swallowed up around the time of the Great Depression. The third attempt at reproduction, the Ithaca, was tried as a stand-alone company, with guns made in America. Fox is still in production, but likely would not be if he did not have a substantial company to back it up. 1902?), Baker Gun & Forging Co., Grade C boxlock (Mfg. 1888), Syracuse Arms Co., Syracuse, Grade AE (Mfg. From Left to Right: American Arms Co., A.E.
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