Briefly in 1897, Baker offered the $100 Pigeon Gun which was essentially a Paragon with a straight grip stock, steel barrels, and Pigeons in the engraving rather than dogs.





In 1905 Baker Gun & Forging Co. was advertising The Baker "Krupp" Grade with straight grip, single selective trigger, ejectors and a recoil pad as "a high grade up-to-date trap gun at a moderate price." By 1906 they were advertising the Grade "L" Trap or Pigeon Gun. In a catalogue of 1906 vintage that I have, the gun pictured in the 1905 ads is the Baker "Krupp" Grade "N", a $75 gun with ejectors $7.50 extra and single trigger $15; while the Baker "L" Grade is $125 with ejectors $7.50 extra and the single trigger $15 extra.
To my knowledge, there was never a Baker double offered with the extras of a vent rib and beavertail forearm that we have come to expect on double trap guns from Parker Bros., L.C. Smith, Ithaca, A.H. Fox, and the Winchester Model 21.

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