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Re: Catalogs with Gun Prices



As I recall, the earliest trade catalog for household and industrial
hardware sold through the business, Huntington, Hopkins & Co. of Sacramento
and San Francisco, CA, is 1879. The particular specimen I have looked at is
quite large in both form and content. Reference photocopies of HH&Co
catalogs are held by California State Railroad Museum, which partly occupies
and operates the reconstructed, original Huntington & Hopkins store.

K.V. Bunker
Student Assistant
California State Archives

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> From:         Scott, Paul (FPM)[SMTP:paul_scott@fpm.co.harris.tx.us]
> Reply To:     Archives & Archivists
> Sent:         Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:19 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Catalogs with Gun Prices
>
> I hate to show my ignorance (although that hasn't stopped other members of
> this List), but when did manufacturers and retailers start publishing
> catalogs?  Was it as early as 1880?
>
> I've seen many advertisements for national manufacturers (Colts Firearms
> come immediately to mind) in newspapers of the era, but I don't recall
> ever
> having seen a catalog much before 1900.
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Hermann Trojanowski [SMTP:Hermann_Trojanowski@NCSU.EDU]
>         Sent:   Wednesday, April 12, 2000 4:07 PM
>         To:     ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>         Subject:        Catalogs with Gun Prices
>
>         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
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