Two 4-bores, one 8-bore and several 10's
 

Early 1905 - some nice big bores and others here .....

Check out stock no 1487: "for shooting at long distances and for flock shooting"

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We love looking at the old time pricing and thinking how cheap they seem but can you imagine the shock if an old timer were to see the going prices now?
He'd be glad he lived "back in the day" even though the prices then were considered high by the average Joe.

Henry Squires was a big Greener distributor and obviously was the dumping ground for used Greeners from Great Britain. What a great selection of big guns.

when I found my very early hammerless and got the letter stating a DH cost $100 in 1889 i looked at salary earned at that time- and found that was a couple or more month wages to the average person

i just looked up 1900- the over all average annual salary according to the US census was about $450 (all occupations)

i really like this add especially about the big bores..i was surprized that one of the 4 bores only weighed 10 pounds...i like the listing of the far killing duck gun the 10 ga...yes even at these seeming cheap prices a man would have had to have a pretty good job to buy one of these guns.....charlie

I wonder if that W&C Scott 4 bore is still for sale. It would match my 8 bore perfectly.

Some years ago at the Old Baltimore Show (now actually held in Timonium MD), I offered an excellent condition cartridge magazine with a near-perfect label from Henry Squires of NY. After a few tire-kickers got through harumpf-ing about it, a man walked up and asked me if this was the same Squires who marketed Greener guns in the US back in the old days. When I confirmed it, he bought it on the spot. Turns out he collected Greeners and had a couple of cartridge magazines with Greener labels, but had never seen one with the Squires as US Agent label. Turns out one of his guns was papered as having been imported and sold through Squires, so he had to have it!

off the course of this topic- I have heard from a couple guys (including the guy I got that cap lock side by side I recently posted in the other guns forum) that the Baltimore show is a great place to see good big bores.

need to go some year, to drool if for no other reason

Rick, do it! A few years ago our display theme was "American 8 Gauges - Real or Imagined?" We showed 7 examples, from the ubiquitous "JABC" category up to and including a stunning DH 8 ga. steel barreled hammerless gun.

I remember Kevin's and my eight gauge display at Baltimore. It was pretty outrageous. None of the guns in the display were discovered at that show, unfortunately.

In today's inflated currency, the Lefever 8 would be approximately $1,000. Realistically, a Lefever collector today would probably pay 5 figures.

not long back somebody here on this sie bid on a gun listed as a heavy ten and won it it turned out to be a 8 ga... charlie