Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 1884 Gun Catalog (Chicago)

97 pages, about 8" x 11", glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. - This leading hardware dealership was the descendant of a Chicago store called Tuttle, Hibbard & Co., which took that name in 1855 when William G. Hibbard became a partner. In 1865, Hibbard was joined by Franklin F. Spencer, and the enterprise was renamed Hibbard & Spencer. By 1867, the company's annual sales of hardware had reached $1 million. Longtime company employee A. C. Bartlett became a partner in 1882, and the company's name became Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett & Co. When Spencer died in 1890, the company was among the leading wholesalers of hardware in the United States.
In 1903, the year Hibbard died, the company opened a 10-story warehouse next to State Street Bridge in downtown Chicago. During the Great Depression, in 1932, the company introduced a new line of hand tools under the brand name "True Value" and by 1948, Hibbard's annual sales reached nearly $30 million. But business slowed and profits shrank as new hardware cooperatives began to bypass traditional wholesalers so in 1962, the company's owners, who wanted to move into the real-estate business, sold the hardware operations and the "True Value" brand to John Cotter for $2.5 million.
Contents - Index:
- Pages: 97
- Chicago, Illinois
- Illustrated with Prices
- Ammunition shown to match each gun
- Colt 12 Gauge with 30 and 32" Barrel
- Parker Guns
- Remington Breech Loading Guns Single and Double
- Greener's New Club and Trap Gun
- Harrington and Richardson Double Barrel Automatic Hammerless
- Bartlett Field Shot Gun
- Bonehill Special Guns
- Pieper Side Snap
- English Breech Loading
- Double Barrel Muzzle Loading Shot Guns
- W. C. Scott Muzzle Loading Guns
- Army Muskets
- Forehand and Wadsworth New Single Barrel
- Winchester Model 1873 all calibers
- Winchester Model 1876
- Colts new Magazine Rifle
- Winchester Sights
- Component Parts of the Winchester
- Reloading Tools by Winchester
- Reloading tools for Smith and Wesson Revolvers
- Hepburn Patent Rifles
- Ballard rifles Sporting, Octagonal and Springfield
- Stevens and Co. Rifles and Hunter's Pet
- Quackenbush Air Guns and Magazine Air Gun
- Flobert Saloon Rifles
- Old Hickory Revolvers
- Blue Jacket Revolvers
- Red Jacket Revolvers
- Commercial Revolvers
- American Revolvers
- H & R Revolvers
- Forehand and Wadsworth Revolvers
- Merwin Hulbert New Automatic revolver
- Colts Revolvers, Peacemaker, Frontier
- Colt Double Action
- Colt Army and Army Double
- Smith and Wesson Revolvers
- Military and Sporting Cartridges
- Paper and Brass Shells
- Gun Implements
- Powder and Shot Measures
- Crimpers, Primers, extractors
- American Shell Loader and Chargers
- Powells Cartridge Loading Block
- Bullet Moulds
- Gun Locks
- Flasks, Pouches