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this is a new name for me..maybe somebody out here has heard of hub guns.. charlie
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More probably, the "Hub" gun was a product of the H. D. Folsom Co. Per Hinman's "The Golden Age of Shotgunning", Folsom..."was importing English, French, and Belgian guns, all in low and medium price range, and taking contracts to furnish either their own or imported guns under any brand name the purchaser desired." Hinman goes on to list 6 pages of gun "brands" that have been associated with Folsom, but the "Hub" brand is not listed. I made my more probably Folsom conclusion based on the sheer volume and diversity of Folsom guns.
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It was listed in the 1890 John P. Lovell Arms Co., Boston Catalogue
http://www.cornellpubs.com/old-guns/...hp?item_id=447 The Folsom (and others) tradename list has gotten a bit longer http://docs.google.com/document/pub?...iu5JGIhfguSXXQ
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Thanks, Drew. Near info and, I think, I stand corrected.
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Thanks Guys
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An interesting side note; The John P. Lovell Arms Co. of Boston was also a large purchaser of Parker Bros. shotguns. Recently, while researching a Parker with Chuck Bishop he informed me of an entry in an Order Book that in 1883 the John P. Lovell Co. returned a large quantity of Parker shotguns to Meriden (some sixty or eighty guns) with the instructions to "refurbish burned guns". Apparently there had been a fire in the store or warehouse.
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Iver Johnson was originally Johnson and Bye (1871).
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