Do Simmons Hardware records still exist somewhere?

[Hammer Gun]

John, Join the crowd, I have been trying to get info on Wlliam Waggoner who had a shop in DC and catered to the effuent crowd in and around the Capital. My gun the first 20ga hammer, with 250.00 or 300.00 engraving, gun was I guess built as a show gun or prototype the letter does not mention an order by any store or person. but it was sent back at the turn of the century according to parker records by the shop of William Waggoner, to have the existing barrels cleaned out and a new set of barrels made for it. But again no reference to who the guns owner was It gets more interesting but that is for the article I will write about it. Good luck with your search. Gary

[Bill Murphy]

William Wagner was a VIP type of dealer and ended up with many interesting guns like the little C grade 20 hammer show gun that shows up in PB order books so many times.

[Mike McKinney]

To my knowledge no records have been kept by any of the companies who came to own Simmons Hardware. The THCKK group could have different information, but Simmons Hardware/Keen Kutter is collected by many people. It's massive to see one of their catalogs. I have one from 1930 and it's quiet extensive. They were a BIG hardware jobber for many years and remnants of records are collectable in and of themselves. Their home office was in St. Louis, and they distributed goods across our country.