doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com interesting Sears SxS article in"Arms and the Man"

Arms and the Man was the magazine of the NRA before The American Rifleman began in mid-1923.

I've got an 1899-1900 H&D Folsom Arms Co. catalogue and they list Thomas Barker and T. Barker, obviiously cheap Belgian doubles, for $9 to $12. The catalogue also states "More than 80,000 T. Barker Guns Now in Use." In the same catalogue they offer their American Gun Co. hammer doubles made at their factory in Norwich, Conn., for $15 with Twist barrels and $17 with Damascus barrels. Just for reference in the same catalogue, their price on an AE-Grade Remington Hammerless Double was $35.