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1897 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue http://books.google.com/books?id=CSVIpqnFMTMC&pg=PA527&lpgDaly 150AE............$129 250AE............$190 Greener No. 3AE.............$187.50 Facile Priceps....$93.75 No. 6 Forester....$69.95 "The Panic of 1907" hit the U.S. economy hard. A credit crisis similar to that of 2008-2009 occurred in 1907. Strains in the financial system started to appear in 1906 when American industry and railroads found it increasingly difficult to obtain credit from Europe, previously a large source of capital flow into the US. Liquidity became increasingly tight through 1907 and on October 23 panic occurred when New York’s third largest trust, the Knickerbocker Trust Company, collapsed related to an attempt by then president Charles T. Barney and Otto Heinze to corner the copper market. Banks began to fail when depositors at other trusts sought to withdraw their money and other banks in New York were forced to retract loans. Lending ceased and the credit crisis spread world wide. Were it not for the intervention of J.P. Morgan, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s agreement to set aside the Sherman Antitrust Act to enable his plan, the entire US banking system may have imploded. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 48% of its value from January 1906 to November 1907. Industrial production dropped by 11%, imports by 26%, while unemployment rose from less than 3% to 8%. The stock market, and the economy, did not recover until the summer of 1908. A two year recovery? That's what happens when the Government doesn't try to "stimulate" things. Pretty sharp contrast to the past six or seven years.
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Charles Godfrey was a major dealer, importer, and jobber located in New York City, after 1879 on Warren Street
The company sold:
I. Hollis & Sons— 3 grades of hammer doubles, the COMPLETE GUN, the PRIZE TRAP and the PRIZE FIELD.
C.G. Bonehill — hammer doubles marked CHARLES J. GODFREY.
W. & C. Scott all grades
T. Bland & Son all lines
Samuel Buckley & Co.— hammer doubles
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Thanks, It was Godfrey that I was trying to remember.
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VL&D had a nice line of Francotte Guns,from that Knockabout up through several lovely sideplated BLs,all I have see were VL&D.
Have seen soe nice Slocks too, but not in hand, not sure if they were VL&D.
All the few Francottes I;ve had were from 1904 thru 1930.I wonder when they started importing them?
Perhaps the earlier SD&G had them too.
There is a guy here , Bob Beach I think, he has access to some Francotte info, & has been very help full to others in the past.
Id stick up a seperate post for him, to make sure he sees it.
Good luck with your search for info,
I am a big fan of good Belgian Guns
cheers
Franc There was a discussion on an earlier thread about the VL&D relationship with Francotte. Evidently it goes back into the 19th century. The main point being that it existed well before VL&D decided to adopt the Francotte boxlock as their "Knockabout" gun, which previously had been the model 1900 Sauer sidelock.
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Wiebusch & Hilger, Limited, NY
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Alfred Field & Co., 93 Chambers & 75 Reade Streets, NY
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There's a book called "The Golden Age of Shotgunning" by Bob Hinman. It has an excellent appendix listing hundreds of brand names, who sold them, which companies in the US were agents for various foreign-made guns, etc.
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Raimey,
Thanks for the additional names. It possible, could you list any maker's names associated with them?
Larry,
Thanks, I'm going to order a copy on Monday.
Regards
Ken
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Samuel Buckley served on the Birmingham Proof House Committee and in 1863 was one of the officers in the British Small Arms Co. He later establish a branch office in Detroit. Guns produced by William Powell in the 1860s exist marked Samuel Buckley & Co. Hammer guns and Anson & Deeley patent BLNEs were imported into the US by J. Palmer O'Neal of Pittsburg, PA in the 1880's.
See The Double Gun Journal Vol. 22 Issue 3, 2011
"The American Exporter’s Export Trade Directory" of 1915 listed Samuel Buckley & Co. as “chiefly importers” with offices at 16 East 33rd St., New York, 2 Soho Square, London and Liege, Belgium. Samuel Buckley & Co., Manhattan incorporated in July 1921.
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I've read that Wiebusch & Hilger, Limited, NY had the trademarks Hamilton Arms, Russell, Russell Arms Company & Stanley Arms from 1880-post WWI. Looks like most of their wares were sourced from Belgium, Joseph Cap may also have had the trademark and F. Dumoulin seems to have been a source.
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