I bought a Baker double at a gun show this weekend. The lighting was typically not the best and I left my reading cheaters at home. As I was looking at it, the seller told me it was a Batavia Special. I did briefly note the small stamping of the word Special on the locks, but didn't pay a lot of attention to that as I was concentrating on overall condition. Upon closer examination at home, I saw that it is marked Harrison Special on both lock plates. In every other respect, it looks like a Baker Batavia Special or Leader grade. It has a Baker buttplate, capped pistol grip, 30" barrels marked "[censored] Tensile Steel" on the right and "Choke Bored" on the left, S.N. 1596xx, with nicer than average wood with nice figure and a lot of fiddleback.
I have never seen a Baker marked Harrison Special and can find no mention of it in any of my reference books. I'm hoping someone here can shed a little light on this.
