Mostly courtesy of Researcher and
http://www.scottcreative.net/Default.asp?ID=33&pg=Short+History+of+N%2ER%2E+Davis+%26+Sons+Shotguns
and
https://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/WarnerAd/warnerad.html The N.R. Davis Arms Co. was located in Assonet, MA starting in 1853. In 1917, N.R. Davis & Sons merged with Warner Co., Norwich, Connecticut and 1917 to 1930 operated under the name Davis-Warner Arms Corp., Brooklyn, NY and Norwich, CT.
New England Westinghouse bought J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. for war production in 1916 and changed the name to J. Stevens Arms Co. In 1920, J. Stevens Arms Co. was sold to Savage Arms Corp., which continued to run it as a separate entity until after WW-II. In 1930 J. Stevens Arms purchased Davis-Warner Arms Corp., and a Stevens memo dated December 15, 1930 announced the purchase from H&D Folsom Arms Company of the assets of Crescent Fire Arms Company of Norwich, Connecticut. The assets of Crescent were to be merged with those of Davis-Warner Arms Corporation and that the newly formed firm would be known as The Crescent-Davis Arms Corporation, Norwich, Conn.
On November 4, 1935, an order of dissolution was filed with the New York Secretary of State and the Crescent-Davis remains were moved to the J. Stevens Arms Co. plant in Chicopee Falls, MA. After the move, Stevens continued to manufacture a few models of Crescent-Davis shotguns until 1943.
