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TB Davis Shotgun

stevensfavoritestevensfavorite Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
edited January 2008 in Ask the Experts
I am looking for information on a shotgun. It is a 12 gauge hammer double barrel. 30 inch barrels, nicely engraved with ducks, walnut stocks, damascus twist barrels, barrels are very good, triggers hammers and action is real tight. Would like to know about history of TB Davis company and ball park figures of worth.
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    SF -

    I happen to have a little .25 Favorite. It's in well over 90% condition. Too bad ammo is unavailable because it's deadly accurate.

    Anyway... T.P.Davis is not amongst familiar names. I'll go out on a limb and guess a Belgian knockoff of N.R.Davis, but it could also merely be a trade name.

    Should the gun bear ELG proofs, then it will be the former. Made in huge numbers by one of several Belgian companies and sold for about $10.00 retail between c.1895 on up to WW1.

    Lacking proofs, the gun will be a domestic product. Again, stampings on the barrel underside or water table may help in identification.

    In either case the gun will not be a big hit with collectors. T.P.Davis never existed as an entity. Not a gun-making entity anyway. This places your old shotgun as made for the trade. A utility piece if you will. Values seldom top $250.00 and often go for half that.
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  • D E DavisD E Davis Member Posts: 1 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My great, great, grandfather was T.B.Davis of the T.B.Davis Arms Company of Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth century. He was not a gun manufacturer but a dealer. Many of the guns he sold were elaborately marked though, including reference to the T.B.Davis Arms Co. I have a few reference books that give some details regarding his business and what manufacturers he dealt with on a large scale. Might help you track this one down. Happy to help.
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  • stevensfavoritestevensfavorite Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mr Davis, Thanks for getting back to me. The gun is a nice one and I would be most interested in finding out more.Please write to me at : Wolfie628@yahoo.com. Thanks
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  • TJMcGannTJMcGann Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by D E Davis
    My great, great, grandfather was T.B.Davis of the T.B.Davis Arms Company of Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth century. He was not a gun manufacturer but a dealer. Many of the guns he sold were elaborately marked though, including reference to the T.B.Davis Arms Co. I have a few reference books that give some details regarding his business and what manufacturers he dealt with on a large scale. Might help you track this one down. Happy to help.
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  • TJMcGannTJMcGann Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a Colt government model pistol that was shipped June 9, 1925 from Colt to T.B. Davis Arms Company and I would like to know if you have any records from the company that would let me know where the pistol went from there. And do you have any information on the history of the company? Thank you!....tom
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  • stevensfavoritestevensfavorite Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Originally posted by TJMcGann[/
    Tom , if you find any info please let me know at wolfie628@yahoo.com.The TB Davis shotgun was made and proofed in Birmingham England. I still haven't found out about the TB Davis firm but it was in Portland Me. Any way this is my hobbie to find unusual items and search the history.
    Gary
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