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24647
You need to provide the serial number
1983
1870-1910 or so
Impossible to value with just a serial number.
You just read it.
There is noway to tell what gague a shotgun is just from the serial number. Take it to a gunsmith.
Have H&A 32cal with serial number z249 .How old and whats it worth.
Hopkins and Allen purchased Forehand Arms in 1902, so sometime between then and 1915 when the company closed.
The Hopkins & Allen 832 was chambered in .32 RinFire Short.
If the shotgun is marked Hopkins and Allen Manufacturing Company, Norwich Conn. it was made between circa 1880-1885 and 1898. If marked Hopkins and Allen Arms Company, it was manufactured between 1898 and 1915. No records are available to give a more exact date of manufacture.
There is no serial number data for the Company Hopkins and Allen in the private sector available.This firm was in business from 1867-1916.No laws required serial numbers at that time,and those that were marked with a serial number have no records remaining today.If you have a single shot shotgun,these were made from 1887-1902.If the markings say Hopkins and Allen Manufg.Co.Norwich,Conn on the gun then this was made from before 1896.If you have a double barrel shotgun,then these were made from 1902-1916,when they went out of business.