Hudson bay help

[Patocazador]

Consider yourself lucky that someone else has the potential problems you might have had ... and you only wanted a rabbit gun, remember? :haha:

My dream when I was 22 was to buy a very used Jaguar XK-120 that sat on a used car lot for months. The dealer wouldn't come down and someone else bought it. A friend knew the buyer and said he had spent a fortune throwing $$$ at that British POS. It could have been me. :td:

 

[Supercracker]

I have a super high grade Belgian SxS, fully engraved, gold and silver inlays everywhere, near exhibition grade wood, solids shooter that I paid less than $800 for. I just bought an original Percussion Westley Richards SxS 14ga that is a shooter that really just needs the wood redone for less than $600. WESTLEY freakin RICHARDS!

If you want an original shooter, and have a little patience you can do much better. Doubly so if you would like a single barrel.

 

[Supercracker]

Consider yourself lucky that someone else has the potential problems you might have had ... and you only wanted a rabbit gun, remember? :haha:

My dream when I was 22 was to buy a very used Jaguar XK-120 that sat on a used car lot for months. The dealer wouldn't come down and someone else bought it. A friend knew the buyer and said he had spent a fortune throwing $$$ at that British POS. It could have been me. :td:

I think the same time everytime I see an ex. :shake:

 

[azmntman]

I saw one of those last week! Had to weigh 350lbs! OMG ma was right! TY Lord

 

[plmeek]

he did say it had "Imperial" and a single number he could not remember "on top between the barrels.

Go ahead ..tell me that made it a once in a life time gun with a sliver of the true cross inlaid in the stock.

Sean,

The single number following the "Imperial" stamp or engraving indicates the model number.

The HBC Archives don't have a lot of documentation on muzzleloaders around the turn of the century. Gooding in Trade Guns of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1970 states on page 98, "...that the Model number designation referred to quality (and hence the value), of a gun, rather than to any technical specification. This is somewhat supported by surviving examples where the decoration increases as the number rises but it is not borne out by the 1896 catalog, the 1901 Price List or the 1910 catalog."

One catalog listed the price of an Imperial 4 Double barrel at $12.00 and and Imperial 3 Double barrel at $15.00, so there probably wasn't a lot of difference between the models.

Some illustrations in Gooding's book show the serial number on the trigger guard. The underside of the barrels near the breech would show the proof marks.

Unless you were a collector of HBC guns and needed that gun to fill a hole in your collection, I don't think you missed "a once in a life time gun".

 

[Alden]

20% is a big difference in price to me. $0.02 stamps then. $3.00/$0.02=600 stamps. A stamp is $0.49. That's a $294 difference by today's standard...