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L.C. Smith Records
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LCSCA PROVIDES RESEARCH LETTERS
The Research Division of the L.C. Smith Collectors Association will search the production records to gather information about specific shotguns and provide an accurate, attractive, high quality research certificate in the form of a letter. The available records include:
- Hunter Arms Company factory records,1890-1919 Hunter Arms Company shipping records, 1918-1946
- L.C. Smith Gun Company factory records, 1946-1950 (FWS prefix)
- Marlin Firearms Company factory records, 1969-71 (FWM prefix)
To order a letter, please complete as much of the information as possible on the research letter request form. Your may fill out the information and then print the form, or print the form and fill it out by hand. |
Mail the completed form and a check payable to the LCSCA for $40 (LCSCA members) or $60 (all others) to the address provided on the form. You will receive a letter containing ALL of the information in the records about the shotgun printed on a reproduction of an early Hunter Arms Company letterhead. The heavy-weight letterhead is 100% cotton rag and acid-free. The letter will be placed in an archival plastic slip cover that will fit into a 3-ring binder. It will be mailed flat and protected from being bent.
If you are not a member of the L.C. Smith Collectors Association, we suggest that you print and fill out a membership form and send it with your research letter request. An annual membership is only $25. Therefore, a research letter AND a membership will cost $65, while a letter alone for an nonmember is $60. See the Membership Page for membership benefits."
CODY FIREARMS MUSEUM
Records
staff (www.bbhc.org then
go to American Firearms, then to Cody Firearms Museum Record
Service) will search
the records and provide the information to you in a letter.
The current cost for this research letter is $75 for nonmembers
and $50 for members of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Members may purchase five-letter packs for $150 and ten-letter packs for $250.
Staff at the Cody Firearms Museum will contract to do additional research. Cost of this service is $50/hour with a one-hour minimum.
Membership
is available (www.bbhc.org then
go to Membership), and one of the benefits is discounted rates
for record searches.
In
addition to the serial number, please provide as much other
information (gauge, grade, hammer or hammerless, barrel length,
etc.) as you know and send it with $75 to:
Cody
Firearms Museum Record Department
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
720 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, WY 82414-3428
(307)
578-4031 or cfmrecords@bbhc.org
GRIFFIN & HOWE
Griffin & Howe has begun an ongoing project to provide access to the sporting firearms sales records of Abercrombie & Fitch and Von Lengerke & Detmold. To date, they have indexed over 56,000 serial numbers of firearms in inventory between the year of 1901 and 1967. Most of these are sales of 'new' firearms. Over 2600 L.C. Smith serial numbers have been indexed. A more detailed description of the process and the information they can provide may be found on their website.
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