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Montgomery Ward did not make firearms. They contracted with makers and had their store brand put on them.
Your shotguns value will be between 100-200 dollars in todays market.
Hercules" was the trade name used by the Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Works on shotguns made for the Montgomery Ward Co. Of Chicago.
Would need to know exactly how the gun is marked. Montgomery Ward's did not manufacture shotguns, but they did sell shotguns made for them by various makers.
Your shotgun was made for Montgomery Wards by the Savage arms Company.The Savage Model 620A and your Model 60-sb620 are the same shotgun.These Savage model 620A shotguns were made from 1926-1945.There were 66,500 shotguns made during this time span.
Ithaca did not make any Wards Western Field Shotguns. Most were made by Stevens/Savage or Mossberg.Western Field, the Montgomery Ward brand name, should not be confused with Western Arms Company, a division of Ithaca that made shotguns that appear identical to Ithaca's Lefever Nitro Special from 1929 to 1946.
I have two 1878 Jas Parker & Sons double barrel shotguns.
No. Remington shotguns are made in the USA.
Barton & co shotguns were made in Liege, Belgium.
When was J J Weston Shotguns made
Most were made by Savage (including Stevens and Springfield) or Mossberg, a few by Noble. Many gun price books and gunparts vendors have crossover lists for model numbers.
Your Montgomery Wards model M72 was made by the firm Mossberg and Sons,It is the Mossberg model 472PRA which was made from 1974-1976.