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Unread 12-07-2020, 09:31 PM   #46
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Thanks! Does it show where the Baker Paragon falls? Below that price level?
My 1906 Wm. Read & Sons catalog shows the Baker Paragon at $60. A photocopy of a little Baker catalog that I have, that someone inked 1905 on the cover of, shows the Baker Paragon at $60 and the Special Paragon at $75. It has the same picture of the Special Paragon as this The Sportsman's Review, Jan. 7, 1905, ad --

The Sportsmans Review, Jan 7, 1905.jpeg

The next Baker catalog I have shows the Baker "Krupp," Grade "N" as the $75 gun --

Baker Krupp, Grade N.jpg

while the Baker "Paragon," Grade "P" is still $60 --

Baker Paragon, Grade P.jpeg

It seems from my collection of catalogs that prices were pretty stable from the latter 1890s to about 1915, then inflation related to The Great War drove prices up very sharply to the early 1920s.
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