doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Tobin Hammer double?

Did Tobin mfg any Hammer doubles when in Conn.? If so, does anyone have pictures they could share. Thank you,

There are pictures in the catalogs, but, nobody has ever claimed to have seen one. My catalog is on loan, but, if I recall correctly, there is a line drawn through the hammer gun description.

Best,
Ted

I was under the impression the hammer double was purely a Woodstock item. It isn't shown in the two Norwich catalogues I have, No. 206 and No. 307.

There is a Tobin article with some new information on the Canadian company by Jim Stewart in the May-June 2016 issue of Canadian Antiques & Vintage. The article includes pictures of Jim's collection, which includes six of the seven grades they offered in Woodstock, including a hammer gun. Jim has donated his collection to the Canadian Museum of History.

Wow. I stand corrected, a few people have seen one. I want to see one, handle one, maybe even shoot one, but...
...I don't want to own one.

Best,
Ted

My interest stems from an online auction listing a Tobin Hammergun and stating a Norwich, Conn. address. What I have found written on the hammer model states it was built on the hammerless frame. The gun shown on the auction sight appears of Belgian design. But I have yet to have seen a Tobin, so...

From Woodstock Catalog No. 110 --

Researcher,

Thank you for the pictures. I can now say with authority that the gun listed on that auction site is NOT a Tobin. And I learned more valuable info on the history of the Tobin Arms Mfg. Co. in the process.

Can anyone here actually say they have seen and handled a Tobin hammergun?


Best,
Ted

I owned a Tobin hammer double and let the late Bill Furnish have it since he had never seen one. Quality wise, it was about like the Syracuse Arms hammer double.

Thank you, Daryl. I was beginning to think it was like a unicorn, just pictures exist.

I'd be willing to bet production was not high.


Best,
Ted

Is it with Bill's collection in Cody? I don't recall seeing any Tobins when I was there with the Remington Society in September 2014.

I think it was not in the group Bill sent to Cody. It was kind of "modern" for him. Also, he sold quite a few guns before compiling the shipment to Cody.

A correspondence with Alvin Hunter, a Tobin collector and researcher, said that Tobin made 656 hammer guns. I don't know how he arrived at that figure.

Also, Hunter stated that Tobin made 1000 single shot .22 rifles. I have a sample of that simple rifle. I have been told that the rifles were given as prizes for getting so many magazine ,or was it newspaper, subscriptions.