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Hello - My family owns a very old Dbl Barrel , side by side that is a muzzle loader. One barrel is a shotgun, the other is a rifled barrel. The only markings on the gun say 'L.Smith Maker'. I thought at first it may be an L.C. Smith shotgun but the folks on that forum said it is not, and that someone on this forum may know more about it. I am not including pics and hope someone may know a little something about the gun. Could not figure out how to load pics.
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Hello Mike Welcome on your first posting If you have pictures, we can help you post them. Have you saved them at a host like www.tinypic.comAlso most helpful would be the marks on the underside of the barrels near the breechblock. Might there be marks like this?? http://www.shotguns.se/html/belgium.htmlMike
Last edited by skeettx; 05/03/18 06:52 PM.
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I am not fully up on their history but L C Smith began in partnership with W H Baker as I recall. Early guns were Baker's designs. I know that some of these early guns were marked L C Smith Maker of the Baker gun or something on that order. Some of these were drilliongs or three barrel guns having two shot barrels & a rifle barrel. The L C Smith was one & the same as the one who would give the name to the L C Smith gun which was in fact designed by Alexander Brown. Smith was not a gun designer. He would eventually sell out to the Hunter Brothers who made most of the L C Smith guns & He & Brown went into the typewriter business.
Someone else will probably be along & fill in missing details as well as correcting any of my errors. As far as I am aware of though there was only one L C Smith, Lyman Cornelius Smith to be precise.
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Great timing on old L.C.'s part to make a fortune in the typewriter business.
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Mike, you had posted this on the L.C. Smith forum and the reply you received was that L.C. Smith never made a muzzle loading shotgun or rifle.
L.C. Smith did begin with W.H. Baker after his older brother Leroy asked if Lyman could help out financially and did partner with W.H. Baker in 1877. The tops of most barrels was engraved L.C. Smith Maker of Baker Guns.
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Mike, the OP, did not say that his muzzleloading cape gun was made by L.C. Smith. He apparently already knows that, and is here seeking some information on a gun built by L. Smith. And he certainly wasn't looking for comments on typewriters.
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