we all know stevens made a lot of store brand double guns...
would be fun to list others here...including those from far away places...
browning bss...miroku japan
parker repro...? japan
60's and 70's ithaca sxs's...miroku again...
others?
AYA made guns for Sears & Roebuck
List must be in the 00's if not 000's.
mills, somewhere, long ago, i saw a list of cresent brand names...seems like it was close a 100...
as i recall, they made a lot of guns for mail order retailers circa 1900...
sears was one of them...
hal, betcha its around a hundred...makers and retailers
lets see...
jp sauer for geco and charles daly...
linder for charles daly...
lets include all we can think of...makers, importers, wholesalers and retailers...
zabala for davidsons...
mugica for noble arms...
francotte and sauer for a&f and vonleacke & diebold?
Winchester for Sears & Roebuck, the Ted Williams over and under and pump guns for sure
doublegons only pls...unless some of you misguided souls actually consider over and unders to be doublegons...and not the ugly perversions that they are...
pre war o/u's are invited..like sauers and francottes for charles daly and a&f....
Ed, I have one that is fairly obscure. It is a Gladiator 12 ga. double made for Sears Roebuck Co. by Hunter Arms Co.
As I recall, the total production of the Gladiator doubles was less than 500 guns before the order was cancelled. They were based on the Hunter Arms Fulton design, with cosmetic differences. Very scarce, but not especially valuable.
Miroku made SxSs under the Westernfield name for Monkey Ward.
Some years J. Stevens Arms Co. got the contract for RANGER double for Sears, Roebuck & Co. and some years the RANGER was a Hunter Arms Co. Fulton. One of the earliest appearances of the Hunter Arms Fulton was as a Manhattan Arms Co. double for SD&G.
Miroku made them for Charles Daly too.
I got confused with the words 'store brand'. I thought Ed meant guns with the name of the store marked on them. That is different than a manufacturer supplying guns to various retailers who may or may not have had them marked with the store names.
hal, lets expand it to guns branded, that do not identify the maker...
if you know of a branded gun, but do not know the maker, then post it here...maybe a member will id it for future reference...
like "great american nitro"...
Ed, the Crescent list of private labeled companies, has been posted here many times, and I believe resides on Dr. Drews website. There were over 120 variations on the Crescent theme.
Essentially if you bought more than 12, they would put anything you wanted on the lock plates.
But you’ve been here long enough and already know that.
A correction, for accuracy. Ithaca doubles both correct (SXS) and Incorrect, (OU) from the 60'-70's were SKB made, not Miroku. Carry on!
Unless Miroku bought SKB back then the latest iteration of mass produced Ithaca double shotguns are clearly marked "custom crafted for Ithaca by SKB" on each and every one. So there you go.