Photo
by Terry Allen.
Originally
published in the Double
Gun Journal
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The
Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
in Cody, Wyoming is the repository of all of the existing
L.C. Smith records. The records include:
• Hunter Arms Company
factory
records,1890-1919,
(including
Fulton and some single-barrel
guns)
• 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) |
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 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 25,000 serial numbers of firearms in inventory between the year of 1901 and 1939. Most of these are sales of 'new' firearms. Over 1100 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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