Crescent Firearms

Single shot $50-75. Double barrel $150-$250. Manufactured circa 1920-1930 by Crescent Fire Arms Co.

Crescent Fire Arms made millions of similar shotguns with over a hundred different trade names. I doubt if anyone has a good estimate, but there were a lot. 20 gauge will be harder to find than 12s.

Known tradename used by Shapleigh Hardware. The guns were made by several different manufacturers, although your double is probably a Crescent. 1900-1930.

Made by Crescent Fire Arms Co, 1893-1932. Worth $150-$250 depending on condition.

Not likely to find one. Serial numbers weren't required on long arms until 1969 and this gun was made by Anciens Etablissment Pieper around 1910.

There's not much information about any particular Crescent firearm, but the company operated from 1892 to 1932 as a subsidiary of H&D Folsom Sporting Goods. The company produced millions of single and double barrel shotguns with over 100 different trade names. Crescent was purchased by the Stevens division of Savage Arms and merged with another purchased company as Crescent-Davis for a few years and then disappeared into the Stevens operation.

Use the Answers.com search engine. I'm sure it will turn up one on one of the online auctions.

Crescent Arms was located in Norwich, Connecticut, from 1892 until 1932. The company was owned by H&D Folsom Sporting Goods of New York from 1893 until 1931 when it was purchased by Stevens/Savage. Although your gun may be priceless to you as a family heirloom, it is not a rare collectible and a similar shotgun new with a warrantee can be purchased for less than $100, so it is worth very little.

Compeer Gun Company was a trade name owned by Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, Indianapolis, Indianna. These guns could have been made anytime between 1892 and 1932.

This was made in the early to mid 30s, It could be a Crescent or J Stevens arms (savage) model. As Crescent was purchased around that time by Stevens. There is a wealth of information by Nick Niles in the Gun Digest book of Guns and Prices 2005 Edition, ISBN #0-89689-324-3 and library of congress # 2005906853 Models, prices, and history. Also acomplete listofALLthe names associated with Crescent F.A. Co

Enders Royal Service shotguns were distributed by HD Folsom to the hardware trade from c.1890-1920. They were imported from Belgium (will have proofmarks) and made domestically by at least two different manufacturers.

There is a wealth of information by Nick Niles in the Gun Digest book of Guns and Prices 2005 Edition, ISBN #0-89689-324-3 and library of congress # 2005906853 Models, prices, and history. Also acomplete listofALL the names associated with Crescent F.A. Co

Crescent Firearms, J. Stevens Arms Co, Hopkins and Allen. The Utica name was a house-brand for Simmons Hardware, St Louis, 1875-1940.

It won't have one. There may be some numbers under the barrel on the forearm, but they will not be serial numbers.

The Imperial was manufactured by Baker Gun and Forging Company, 1896-1919. (You'll have to hold it a little closer to the screen so I can see what gauge it is.)

ROYAL STEEL was the marking that indicated the barrels were of fluid steel rather than Damascus. LC Smith introduced Royal Steel as an option on the F Grade in 1917 and by 1919 only Royal Steel was available on all grades.

REV-O-NOC shotguns were made by Crescent Firearms and distributed by HD Folsom to the HSB & CO hardware/catalog store. Your gun would have been made c.1880-1910, and value would be under $200. Please do not attempt to fire the gun.

The book "The Golder Age of Shotgunning" by Bob Hinman (published by Wolfe Publishing Co. Prescott Arizona) is the only source I can think of for information on these two companies. These companies combined in the 1890's to become one originazation.

Under $100.

Both HENRY ARMS CO and ECLIPSE GUN CO were tradenames used by the HD Folsom Co on shotguns imported before World War 1. Both brands were made by Henri Pieper in Belgium.

50-150 USD

Made in Connecticut between 1895 and 1910 by the Crescent Firearms Co and distributed to the hardware trade by HD Folsom. Value under $250.

Liege is the city in Belgium where it was made. Would need to know ALL the markings on the shotgun.

CS Shattuck was in operation from 1878 to 1908. I can't measure the bore from here, but it is probably a 12 gauge, but during that time range anything from 8 to 32 gauge is possible.

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2700.html

Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.

This leading hardware dealership was the descendant of a Chicago store called Tuttle, Hibbard & Co., which took that name in 1855 when William G. Hibbard became a partner. In 1865, Hibbard was joined by Franklin F. Spencer, and the enterprise was renamed Hibbard & Spencer. By 1867, the company's annual sales of hardware had reached $1 million. When longtime company employee A. C. Bartlett became a partner in 1882, the company's name became Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett & Co. When Spencer died in 1890, the company was already among the leading wholesalers of hardware in the United States. In 1903, the year Hibbard died, the company opened a 10-story warehouse next to State Street Bridge in downtown Chicago. In 1932, the company introduced a new line of hand tools under the brand name "True Value." By 1948, Hibbard's annual sales reached nearly $30 million. Business slowed and profits were shrunk, however, as new hardware cooperatives began to bypass traditional wholesalers. In 1962, the company's owners, who wanted to move into the real-estate business, sold the hardware operations and the "True Value" brand to John Cotter for $2.5 million. See also True Value Hardware.

This entry is part of the Encyclopedia's Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000) that was prepared by Mark R. Wilson, with additional contributions from Steven R. Porter and Janice L. Reiff.