There's SOME info here; http://www.scripophily.net/hoalarcoma19.html FriPilot
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hi I might be able to help you but I will need you to answer a few questions if your interested you can email me at LPAUMP1@AOL.COM I collect Stevens and older savage rimfires primaraly single shots and pump actions but have acquired others and info on them to will be glad to try to help and good luck mike
very good question. new york arms co. is nowhere to be found. have very old 12 gauge single barrel shotgun stamped "GENUINE ARMORY STEEL" and "CHOKE BORED" "NEW YORK ARMS CO." New York Arms Co was a trade name manufactured by Crescent Firearms. Genuine Armory Steel - Choke Bored is also a Crescent marking. They also used the name Armory Gun Co.
after ww2
I was informed that' some Morsel shotguns were made by Navy Arms Co.
The Hopkins and Allen company was founded in 1868 then merged with the Forehand Arms Co in 1901. Out of business by 1917.
Hopkins & Allen Arms Co. Fifty Years of Gunmaking 1867 - 1917 by Joseph T. Vorisek is about the best book on H&A.
if the top of the barrel reads Hopkins and Allen MANUFACTURING CO, it was made before 1896. If it reads Hopkins and Allen ARMS CO, it was made after 1898.....
Hopkins and Allen Arms Co.
august 21,1906
Hopkins & Allen Arms Co. Fifty Years of Gunmaking 1867 - 1917 by Joseph T. Vorisek is about the best book on H&A.
about the the late 1800s
You just read it.
Nope. They were not in business in 1853. The Hopkins and Allen company was founded in 1868 by S. S. Hopkins, C. W. Hopkins and C. H. Allen. The company experienced financial difficulties and in 1898 was reorganized as the Hopkins & Allen Arms Co.
Hopkins and Allen arms co. 12ga serial #5832006
Hopkins & Allen Arms Co. Fifty Years of Gunmaking 1867 - 1917 by Joseph T. Vorisek is about the best book on H&A.
Hopkins and Allen took over the Forehand name in 1903 and continued until 1915.