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).

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 194

• 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