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My kid picked up an el cheapo Springfield. Only proofmark on the barrels is a "Q" on underrib. Huge "Springfield" in script on the sideplates. Searched and could find nothing. Anyone else seen one?

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The Stevens Springfield was of course a boxlock, and marked Springfield Arms Company Chicopee Falls.
Crescent may have made a Springfield tradename gun, for an unknown dealer.
Crescent-Davis, Springfield, Mass. may have produced some Springfield Arms Co. doubles, which would be a Crescent sidelock
Look like any of these?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OxZo5Tkvx2G8eYf747QR9B5RJdN6Siu5JGIhfguSXXQ/edit

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wow...neva seed dat one befo...


keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Have some nice pics, but now can't get jpeg.box to upload them. Can I send them to someone here to transfer to the thread?

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Send a couple of ‘em to me, I’ll get them up.
Email in my profile.
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I will venture to say that it is a Crescent sidelock that was assembled in the last days of Crescent-Davis-Stevens, 1930-1943(?). There are any number of guns that were assembled from remaining parts and labeled with what ever stamp was on the bench.

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After the Crescent-Davis Arms Corp., Norwich, Conn. went belly up in 1935, the remains went to the J. Stevens Arms Co. factories in Chicopee Falls. Mass. From then until WW-II, all manner of combinations of Stevens/Springfield and Crescent/Davis parts emerged from the factory at Chicopee Falls.

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Here is a Crescent marked STEVENS --

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Here is a SPRINGFIELD built on a Davis frame --

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Thanks John and Dave. FWIW in 1937 Crescent-Davis Arms Corp. was still listed in Springfield, Mass., so maybe the big move to Chicopee Falls was 1938?
https://books.google.com/books?id=5mhcE-yQzzsC&pg=PA13603&lpg

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Uploaded for Hal:

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Doesn’t appear to be a high end sort of gun.



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I believe that is a Forehand design Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works gun. The very few I've seen had a "Modified Diana" monobloc barrel. Dave and John would know.
https://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=398487&page=all

Or maybe a H&A frown
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=398670

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