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At the turn-of-the-twentieth century, major hardware stores in
the East did a land office business in selling side-by-side guns.
Murtha Appleton and E.K. Tryon in Philadelphia and William Wagner & Son
in Washington, D.C. sold thousands of L.C. Smith, Parker, and Fox
guns. A single order from E.K. Tryon in the Parker Bros. order
books is 12 pages of legal-sized sheets. Wm. Wagner's store was
near the Library of Congress and the U.S. Capitol, and he sold
guns to John Phillip Souza, Gen. Billy Mitchell, President Grover
Cleveland, and "Marse" Henry Bartholomew. Documented
Hunter Arms Company distributors include:
- Orgill Brothers & Co., Memphis, TN
- Townley Metal & Hardware Co., Kansas City, MO
- Belknap Hardware Company, Louisville, KY
- The Sporting Goods Agencies, Montreal, Canada
- Schoverling, Daly & Gales, New York, NY
- Hartley & Graham, New York, NY
- Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, New York, NY
- Storrs & Candee Sporting Goods, Hartford , CT
- McDonald & Linforth, San Francisco, CA
- Clabrough, Golcher & Co., San Francisco, CA
- Harder Sporting Goods Co., Williamsport, PA
- Wm. Read & Sons, Boston, MA
- John P. Lovell Arms Co., Boston, MA
- Hurty-Simmons Hardware Co., Minneapolis, MN
- J. H. Johnson, Great Western Gun Works, Pittsburg, PA
- Von Lengerke & Antoine, Chicago, IL
- A. J. Rummel Arms Co., Toledo, OH
- W. S. Brown, Pittsburg, PA
- John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., Milwaukee, WI
- Powell & Clement, Cincinnati, OH
- Boehme & Rauch Co., Monroe, MI
- Edward K. Tryon Co., Philadelphia, PA
- Bolles-Brendamour Co., Cincinnati, OH
- McCumber-Smith Co., (unknown)
- Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett, Chicago, IL
- E. C. Meacham Arms Co., St. Louis, MO
- John P. Lovell Arms Co., Boston, MA
- Paxton & Gallagher Co., Omaha, NE
- Townsend Gun Co., Omaha, NE
- Lull & Hartford, Lowell, MA
- Spalding-Haywood Arms Co., Denver, CO
- Janney, Semple, Hill & Co. Minneapolis, MN
- Wm. Frankfurth Hardware Co. Milwaukee, WI
- W. Fred Quimby Co. at 294 Broadway, New York City
advertized (1894) as the "New York Agents for the L C Smith Hammerless Shot Gun and General Agents for Empire Target Co."
- W. H. Thorne & Co., New Brunswick, Canada
In 1920, the Hunter Arms Company. listed the following international agents:
- H.W. Hancock & Company, Manila, Philippines
- C. Alken, Inc., Manila, Philippines
- Spencer & Waters, Santiago, Chile
- Martin Kohn, Havana, Cuba
Examine your barrels carefully and you might find a "SD&G" for Schoverling, Daly & Gales, a "WR" for Wm. Read & Sons, or a "BH", possibly for Belknap Hardware. Please contact Dr.
Drew if you find any other stamps. |
