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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.com
    You will have to find a Good Stock Maker that will take on the Job, and build you a Stock..It won't be cheap, but there just isn't any other choice......
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  • Ned Fall
    Captain Kirk has given you some fairly correct information but..... The gun is what is known as a "Trade Brand Name" shotgun. That is a gun that was made by a major maker (and before 1940) for and was sold by a wholesaler or retailer who chose the name to go on the gun. Guns with the name NEW YORK ARMS CO were made by the Crescent Fire Arms Company of Norwich, CT (1892 to 1931) for and were most likely sold by the H & D Folsom Company of New York City a large wholesale and retail sporting goods dealer. Crescent has been out of business for eighty years and there are no off the shelf replacement parts available. Sometimes you can find parts and parts guns for sale on the various gun auction sites like here on Gun Broker. And as said you can find some stock makers who can carve replacement parts but the cost may exceed the value of the gun. And value. the value of any old gun will depend on its condition, the amount of original finish remaining on the metal and wood as well as the mechanical condition. Values for these guns can range from about $200 to less than $10 for a rusty rotten incomplete piece of junk fit only as a boat anchor. Incidentally if you post the serial number of the gun, I can tell you when it was made.
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  • oldemagics
    quote:Originally posted by Ned Fall
    Incidentally if you post the serial number of the gun, I can tell you when it was made.

    You have access to s.n. infor for crescent?
    i have one i recently finished i would love info on!

    EDIT;
    forgive my lack of thought...
    cts1, do you have an original stock that might be "saved"
    shoot me an e-mail and i may be able to talk you through the process if there is enough left of the wood.
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  • retroxler58
    quote:Originally posted by oldemagics
    quote:Originally posted by Ned Fall
    Incidentally if you post the serial number of the gun, I can tell you when it was made.

    You have access to s.n. infor for crescent?
    i have one i recently finished i would love info on!

    EDIT;
    forgive my lack of thought...
    cts1, do you have an original stock that might be "saved"
    shoot me an e-mail and i may be able to talk you through the process if there is enough left of the wood.
    Good Man there, Charlie Brown... [^]

    Willin' to help somebody through a project rather than make a buck... Nice and Neighborly! [;)]
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  • Ned Fall
    Yes. Need to know if the gun is a single barrel or double barrel. hammer type or hammerless.
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  • oldemagics
    sorry, apparently the crescent is either boxed for later work orr was junk
    the on i was wondering about was a peerless sideplate hamerless
    #2218** if anyone has related info
    it was a rusted fast, paint covered "junk pile" gun when i got it...
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