Never heard of them. Hopkins and Allen, however, was in operation form 1868-1917
The Hopkins and Allen company was founded in 1868 then merged with the Forehand Arms Co in 1901. Out of business by 1917.
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There's SOME info here; http://www.scripophily.net/hoalarcoma19.html FriPilot
100 or so
Hopkins & Allen Arms Co. Fifty Years of Gunmaking 1867 - 1917 by Joseph T. Vorisek is about the best book on H&A.
That was a trade bame used by Hopkins & Allen of Norwich Ct- about 100 years ago.
Iverjohnsoncollector.com used to have sn data.
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.
50-100 USD or so
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. A fire in 1900 hurt them and in 1901, they were forced to merged with the Forehand Arms Company. The manufacture of Hopkins and Allen firearms ceased in 1917 when the plant was taken over by Marlin-Rockwell Corporation for the war time production of Browning automatic rifle components.
Some models of Diamond Arms were made by the Crescent Fire Arms Company for the Shapleigh Hardware Company of St, Louis, Mo. between 1982 and about 1922.
Hopkins and Allen purchased Forehand Arms in 1902, so sometime between then and 1915 when the company closed.