I dont know about fine but !

[winplumber]

Anyone have a N. R. Davis .410 sxs serial number f 13002 frame, I have your barrels and forend !

[Researcher]

Wow!! An N.R. Davis .410-bore must be as scarce as the teeth of hens! As far as I know, N. R. Davis and its follow on Davis-Warner Arms Corp. never offered a .410-bore double. According to the histories, Davis-Warner Arms Corp. quit producing doubles in 1926, to concentrate on their importing business. Listings from the 1926 E.K. Tryon catalogue --



In 1930, Davis-Warner Arms Corp was sold to Savage Arms Corp. At about the same time Savage Also bought the Crescent Fire Arms Co. from H & D Folsom Arms Co. Savage combined their two Norwich area purchases as Crescent - Davis Arms Corp. and from 1931 to 1935 they struggled to sell some guns, which did include some .410-bores --





By late 1935 Crescent - Davis Arms Corp. was dissolved and the remains moved to Savage's J. Stevens Arms Co. factories at Chicopee Falls, Mass. From 1936 to WW-II J. Stevens Arms Co. listed Crescent-Davis guns in their wholesale price lists behind their lower-priced Springfield Arms Co. line. We see some really unusual combinations of Crescent, Davis and Stevens parts put out during this late 30s, early 40s time period.

[Roundsworth]

I had a cute Crescent-Davis sidelock .410 for awhile. It was well used, but locked up tight. Shoulda kept it!

[Researcher]

Yeah.... What is it about .410-bores? I bought this 1930s vintage Crescent years ago just because if is in pretty nice condition --

[Jack Kuzepski]

I had an NR Davis 410 several years back. It was the first and only one I had seen or heard of 'till now. It was missing the forend and I had picked up a 20 ga forend and was starting to fit it when a friend "just had to have it". So I had sold him the project.

Jack Kuzepski

[winplumber]

Might be wrong I have been that alot lately (Ask my wife ) I looked at some N R Davis sxs barrels and the construction of lug and all seem to match and the rib extention also I will try to get some pictures .

[charlie cleveland]

you said the rite words what are they about the little 410 s ....them little double barrel 410 s sure were cute and they really handled well.... even the shell boxes like the one shown here are highly sought after... charlie

[winplumber]

I think what I have is a N.R. Davis and Sons, There was one on Gunsamerica #950592643 that is no longer available I did a Google search for n.r. davis sxs 410 and it came up

[Researcher]

N.R. Davis & Sons was in Freetown and later Assonet, Mass. They were acquired by Warner Arms Corp. of Norwich, Conn. in 1917, and the business became Davis Warner Arms Corp. According to the late Joe Vorisek, evidence suggests that parts were made at Assonet as late as 1925, but that they were assembled into guns at the Warner factory in Norwich. Here is a 20-gauge with a real hodge-podge of markings. It is marked "N.R. Davis & Sons", but "Davis Warner Arms Co." and then the real kicker "Chicopee Falls, Mass." the address of the J. Stevens Arms Co. factories?!?



One would think that if anything, a gun with the Chicopee Falls address would be marked either Crescent - Davis Arms Corp. or J. Stevens Arms Co.???

Note that the Davis Warner Arms Corp. era Davis guns in the 1926 E.K. Tryon catalogue (above) have a straight back to their receivers, like the .410-bore pictured in the Gunsamerica ad. The ones in the Crescent - Davis Arms Corp. catalogue have the curved back to the receiver as the 20-gauge gun I've pictured here?!?