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