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This showed up on ebay and is claimed to be original paper, though the source is not listed. I thought maybe a modern graphic design production as I can not find anything about Penn Arms Co. nor ID the American boxlock illustrated



BUT this is in the ad section of the November 1897 "Recreation"



Cornell Pubs has an 1892 SD&G catalog repro but Penn Arms is not listed
https://cornellpubs.com/product/1017/

nor is it in the 1903 catalog
https://cornellpubs.com/product/1186/

Has anyone encountered a Penn Arms Co. shotgun?

Penn Arms may be one of the many gun names put on Forehand or Forehand and Wadsworth guns. One might add Hopkins and Allen to the list of possibles, and Shattuck, too.

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Preacher, I briefly looked at a Penn Arms Co. shotgun at a small gun show at the Wurtemburg, Pa. Fire Dept. 10-15 years ago, when I was hitting a gun show just about every weekend in the cooler months.

I always take at least a quick look at anything with two barrels in a side by side configuration. This Penn Arms gun I looked at was a 12 gauge in very poor wallhanger condition. It was a field grade, and looked like it had been left out in a field for a while. I think it had fluid steel barrels, but it isn't a gun burned in my memory at all. I remember thinking it was probably some cheap hardware store gun, or maybe a JABC. I'm surprised to see it was sold for $25.00 in 1897, when low grade Ithacas, L.C. Smiths, or Lefevers were around the same cost. It's hard to believe this gun ever had comparable quality. I wasn't interested enough to even ask the price.

Somewhere, I have a book called "Side by Sides of the World" by Charles Carder. It is an extensive compilation of different brands and models of double barrel shotguns, many of which I had never heard of. For quite a few of them, he didn't offer up much information at all. But that might be a good place to find at least something about this gun company.

Drew, I think it is possible that the illustration of the Penn is not done clearly or very well. When I think of it , a flat side on a gun like that would not match up with the forend Iron. There almost has to be a narrowing of the bar near the hinge.