These ESSEX single shot 410 shotgun pistols were made sometime after 1908 to the best of my knowledge. My Grand Father would win them as a prize for selling a certain amount of candy in Tennessee. My Father was between 11 and 19 years old when these shotgun pistols were being given away as prizes and Dad was born in 1908. When I was 12 or 13 or 14 we would try to shoot skeet with one of them, I could hit about 1 out of 9 clays at the best with it. A good friend of my Dad's had a SXS 28 gauge shotgun pistol, it was very neat but 28 gauge ammo was hard to come by and I do not remember ever seeing it fired at all. Jent
