Baker Gun Help!

[Craig Budgeon]

Looked up H.D. Folsom on the net this AM. While I was aware that they were involved with more than Bakers, I was not aware that they in fact were responsible for the distribution of more than 100 brands of shotguns but not the manufacture. Since they were involved with so many brand names I doubt what serial number a gun carried was of no importance to them. The F suffix was probably of more benefit to the manufacturer than to Folsom

[Drew Hause]

Craig: Folsom did market name, and tradename, English and Belgian guns.

1890



And also the Folsom “Parker Trap Gun”



But Folsom purchased Crescent Fire Arms in 1893 and the vast majority of tradename guns thereafter were of Crescent manufacture.
It's all here, along with an estimated SN DOM
https://docs.google.com/document/pub...iu5JGIhfguSXXQ

"We have been manufacturing Crescent guns for over 40 years..." c. 1925
Well not quite 40 years; The Crescent Fire Arms Co. was incorporated in Connecticut on March 4, 1892.

[Researcher]

The NEW PARAGON/EXPERT/DELUXE GRADE MODEL--NINETEEN-NINE featured a new "roller cocking mechanism" --

New Paragon Grade--Model Nineteen-Nine. 1909 No. 4, The Baker Gunner.jpg

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When they brought out the Paragon and Expert Grades with the round cross bolt they returned to the pin through the lug lifting the "cocking lever" cocking mechanism --

201036 01 Paragon.jpg

Baker Paragon Grade circa 1915.jpg