EC Meacham Arms Company 1885 Gun & Sport Goods Catalog, St Louis

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EC Meacham Arms Company 1885 Gun & Sport Goods Catalog, St Louis

• This is the largest Meacham we publish, but it suffers from “bleedthrough”. Where the gun pages were identical in previous editions we substituted those clean pages for poorer ones in this edition. See picture for an example of bleedthrough.
• 51 pages, about 8″ x 11″, glossy soft-cover in full color.
• New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from an OK photocopy.
• Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper.
• Fully Illustrated.

We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer.

This abridged 1883 Meacham Arms Co. catalog from St. Louis highlights firearms available to dealers and sportsmen during the post–Civil War era. Digitally restored from a quality original and printed on acid-free paper, it’s fully illustrated with period-accurate imagery.

Notable listings include:

• Parker shotguns; Harrington & Richardson and Colt New Hammerless revolvers
• Spencer repeating rifles; Sharps Creedmoor and Models 1874/1878
• Stevens, Remington (1½ and Improved Hunter), Whitney, and Flobert rifles
• W. C. Scott muzzle loaders; Springfield rifles; Zulu single breechloaders
• Colt magazine-fed guns; Smith & Wesson revolvers (.32, .38, .44)
• Merwin Hulbert revolvers: Army Automatic, Pocket Army, American Bulldog, Saw Handle
• Winchester Models 1866, 1873, 1876 (40–60), and Target rifles with wind gauge
• Defender pocket revolvers, Eclipse vest-pocket guns, and British Bulldogs

Best suited for:

• Antique firearm collectors and 19th-century arms historians
• Researchers studying regional gun dealers and Western distribution
• Gunsmiths restoring vintage rifles and handguns
• Enthusiasts building a reference library of rare dealer catalogs