Need Help- Now

[Bent Barrel]

One of my best friends passed away about 3 weeks ago and his wife has asked me to sell his guns. One fo those is a double barrel 12 gauge, 28 inch barrels made by H.S.B. of Chicago. I have had no luck in learning anything about it. It is in decent shape for its age ,and I want to get a fair price for it. One of his hunting buddies called the wife and wants to buy this gun as a remembrance of Jerry. He is coming to my home tomorrow to look at it. I`m thinking $200.- $250. This is one time I need Some advice - Quickly.
Thanks,
Bob

 

[feralmerril]

http://www.auctionarms.com/sea....cfm?itemnum=9100149

http://answers.yahoo.com/quest...0070121071740AArPRuO

 

[Bent Barrel]

Feralmerril,

Thanks for the immediate help. The gun you referenced is almost an exact double of the one I`m selling.

 

[feralmerril]

Your welcome. All I did was google it.

 

[Jellybean]

Wow, I bought an old "Danial Boone" shotgun before the computer age and had to dig it's information up. It too is a Crescent and was the brand name used by the Belnap Hardware Store in Louisville Ky. Nice shotguns even though I had to make a few de-Bubbaifying adjustments to mine.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Jellybean

Belnap hardware brings back memories. I was living in Louisville when then Demo the original building even still have a brick from it. They sold the movie rights to the explosion and it appeared in a Wesley Snipes action movie

 

[CelticSire]

Originally posted by mississippi revolverman:
Jellybean

Belnap hardware brings back memories. I was living in Louisville when then Demo the original building even still have a brick from it. They sold the movie rights to the explosion and it appeared in a Wesley Snipes action movie

Somwhere I still have an original Belknap (correct spelling) catalog from the early 19-teens. You could order just about anything you wanted from Belknap, including shotguns, and switchblades. The catalog is hardbound and about four inches thick.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

I have 5 old hand saws all Belknap. I think they had a "brand name" of Blue Grass

 

[Jellybean]

Thanks for the follow up folks. I had bought the Daniel Boone with the intent of making it a coach gun. The stock screws were replaced with galvanized wood screws that didn't fit and the stock didn't look like it fit right to the reciever. I took the stock off and found a machine screw that was supposed to go all the way through the stock didn't because it was all gunked up. I cleaned that up and then turned the heads on the wood screws down to fit the reciver tang better. Then I looked at the gun and didn't have the heart to cut it, not that it was any prize, it's just doubles were a family tradition. I later found an old Hopkins and Allen that had had the barrels cut before and it was a pretty poor job. I bought it and it's still my favorite coach gun.