Knickerbocker Shotgun Serial Numbers
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Victor and Knickerbocker were Crescent-Davis (circa 1888 to about 1940) 'utility' guns manufactured for various hardware stores, retail outlets, and Folsom's retail outlets. The Victor was manufactured by Crescent Firearms, Norwich, CT, which was owned by Folsom from 1893 - 1932. %DETAILS% American Gun Company was the house brand of H&D Folsom Sporting Goods of New York. Of course, if it is broken/worn out/rusted it will be worth little or nothing.
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Value is in the neighborhood of $85-150 unless it is in absolutely new condition.
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Serial numbers don't help much on these - no one has ever tried to determine the method Crescent used to assign them or research original records (probably none exist) - but it would have been made somewhere between 18. Victor and Knickerbocker were Crescent-Davis (circa 1888 to about 1940) 'utility' guns manufactured for various hardware stores, retail outlets, and H & D Folsom Sporting Goods of New York City. They are valued primarily as decorators and usually sell for less than $200. Thousands of similar guns were imported to the US in the late 1800's and there is little collector interest in them. If there is no crown, it was proofed earlier. If there is a crown over this oval, the gun was proofed in Leige, Belgium, after 1893. If you examine your shotgun, you should find an oval surrounding the letters ELG and a star. That is a pinfire revolver, so apparently he was active in the last half of the 19th century. I can only find one other reference to his work. Victor Sarasqueta Sidelock shotgun? Please I know it's not casting related but I'm in dire need of knowledge as to whether these are junk or quality.Īpparently Victor Collette was not a prolific gunmaker. View A FINE 16-BORE SIDELOCK EJECTOR, VICTOR SARASQUETA CORTABERRIA Y CA, EIBAR, NO VISIBLE SERIAL NUMBER, DATED.