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Re: Catalogs with Gun Prices



Try contacting the Springfield Armory Museum, which has a large gun
collection.

http://www.nps.gov/spar/home.html

 Springfield (Massachusetts) is also the home of Smith & Wesson, currently
the world's largest gun manufacturer.

At 05:06 PM 04/12/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I am sending this message on behalf of a patron who is researching the
>price of guns and gun parts.  He is looking  for catalogs (1880 -
>1920).  We have a 1912 Sears Catalog in our collection which was helpful
>but he is looking for a catalogs dating back to 1880.
>
>Does anyone on the list know of a gun manufacturer who has an archive?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Hermann J. Trojanowski
>Assistant University Archivist
>Special Collections Department
>North Carolina State University
>Box 7111
>Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7111
>Telephone: (919) 515-2273
>Fax: (919) 515-7292

Lisa Sotak, Registration Assistant
Collections Management Department,
Springfield Library & Museums Association

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