In the early 1970s, Holland Firearms Inc. The possible history intrigues me til this day. If I can find it I will send some photos to Ian. I assume that it came in by boat from New Orleans since much of the “bought” fixtures of this pre-Civil War home were made in France or New Orleans as that was the only supply line into this part of Louisiana back then. The reason I remembered it is that it is in the box with the locks from the Ithica.
Ithaca 37 shotgun barrels for sale free#
Both locks still work and the firing pins are free and clean. The end of one barrel was rusted through at the muzzle and I could find no maker’s markings anywhere on it. I do not remember if it was a rimfire or center fire. The ends of the barrels were very thin for a pistol so I have always assumed it to be a “pocket shotgun” of about. In one of the walls I found a small double-barreled pistol with hammer locks and tip-up barrels.
Thinking back on the Ithica I remembered that in the late-1980s I was tearing down an old plantation home for the old-growth lumber used to build it so I could use it to make cabinets and furniture for our new home. Tomorrow is the first day of Rock Island’s current Premier auction, so this will be our last video in this series. Today I am looking at examples of both an early A&B and also a later style A&B. Obviously, nobody was going to legally purchase one of these with a 500% federal tax, so Ithaca stopped making them. The guns had already been expensive at $40, and the NFA tax added on an addition $200 to that (this would be changed to $5 for AOWs in 1968). Production and sale of the Auto & Burglar (and the other guns like it) ended abruptly in 1934, when passage of the National Firearms Act placed a massive tax on their sale or transfer. This replaced with a more squared-off looking design for the remainder of production. The early stocks had a small wooden spur that was reportedly fragile and prone to breaking.
The stock changed style in 1925, when Ithaca made some changes to the shotgun action as well. They were basically a short version (typically 10″ barrels) of Ithaca’s standard SxS shotgun action with a special stock intended to be held like a pistol. These were made mostly in 20ga, but could also be ordered in. One of the best of these was the Ithaca Auto & Burglar. Before 1934, there was no legal restriction on short-barreled shotguns, and several companies offered pistol-style shotguns for personal protection.