Description
Forehand Arms Company, An Illustrated History of the
194 pages, about 8 1/2″ x 11″ glossy soft-cover in full color. Reprinted with permission from Joe’s estate. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated with photocopied images.
Has serial numbers, models, patents and advertisements. A really useful book for the collector. Forehand Arms, Forehand and Wadsworth. (Some of the rarest guns are depicted with low quality images).
We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- A Short Illustrated History of The Forehand Arms Company (Forehand Arms, Forehand and Wadsworth )
- By Joseph T. Vorisek
- Allen & Wheelock et al
- 1836 Ethan Allen
- 1837 Allen & Thurber
- Then Allen and Wheelock and then E. Allen Co.
- Serial # of Allen and Wheelock
- Illustrated Single Shot Pistols/Percussion With Dates of Mfg.
- Illustrated Lip Fire Revolvers with Dates of Mfg.
- Illustrated Single shot Pistols/Cartridge
- Illustrated Rifles and Shotguns
- Observed Specimens of Allen Wheelock and Allen & Thurber Guns
- E. Allen and Co.
- Ethan Allen had his two son in laws Sullivan Forehand and Henry Wadsworth join his partnership.
- Lipfire Revolvers illustrated
- Rifles, shotguns, pistols, Derringers, spur Trigger Illustrated
- The Forehand & Wadsworth Company 1871
- Wadsworth Died in 1890 and it Became Forehand Arms
- Employees moved between H & R plant and the Forehand plant and many models look alike!
- Spur Trigger Revolvers, Side Hammer Revolvers
- Bulldog, Swamp Angel, Terror, New Empire, Alert, Russian Model Illustrated
- List of trade Names
- Solid Frame Double Action Revolvers
- American and British Bulldog
- Army Models by Forehand and Wadsworth
- Serial #s of Models
- Top Break Revolvers, Perfection, Bicycle
- Serial numbers
- Rifles and Shotguns ( dangerous today!)
- Devil Anse’s Boy”
- The Hatfield gun of McCoy and Hatfields
- Ammunition Manufacturing
- Cartridge Making Machinery
- Whaling and Harpoon Bomb lance Gun
- Molds for Hollow Projectiles
- Patent Illustrations
- Advertising of Forehand guns
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