2-Piper, as usual, you are right, recently on about the Clark and Sneider catalogs and how they reused them. I have copies and originals of the 1878 catalog and it shows only hammer guns. Then you see a catalog of that date, but with a hammerless gun pasted on it's pages. I wonder if we can assume that catalog is from "late 1878" as I would think if they were adding a hammerless gun, they would also add the latest date. I also have a copy of a Clark and Sneider catalog of 1876, showing , of course , only hammer guns in both Solid Grip ,Top Lever, Self-Closing Guns, and similar Double Grip guns of Self-Closing design.
Likewise, the 1883 catalog shows "Clark and Sneider" on the cover. They offer hammerless guns from 16 ga. to 8 ga. and hammerguns from 20 ga. to 8 ga. I have a hammerless 20 ga that checks in near 5 poounds in weight. Has anyone seen a catalog offering hammerless 20 ga. guns ? I do have old photographs of ads from an unidentified magazine source, maybe Forest and Stream. One is showing "The Sneider" hammerless gun, by Clark and Sneider with a latest Patent mentioned of 1880. The other ad shows "The Sneider Hammerless" offered by C. W. Sneider. The first ad specifically offers the Guns with Hammers in 4-20 gauge. No mention of Hammerless gauges. The second ad offers the Hammerless in 4-20 ga. , priced $100-$300----princely sums. I have never heard of a Sneider or Clark and Sneider 4 bore double and have seen only one 20 ga. Sneider or Clark and Sneider.
Sort of like the altered 1878 catalog, we also see the 1883 catalog altered with "Clark &" neatly crossed out on the cover, but still dated 1883. I would "assume" the partnership dissolved in that year.
Last edited by Daryl Hallquist; 08/30/10 07:06 PM.
