I have a D.M. Lefever of Bowling Green, Ohio Trap gun in very good condition. It is a single shot with a pistol grip and a checkered stock. It is made of Krupp Fluid Steel. It has the number "41" stamped in several places. There do not seem to be any modifications of any kind ever made to the gun. I am trying to determine the approximate value.
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Jim Watson
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Wow.
Blue Book says "Too rare to accurately determine values."
It is NOT the Lefever Arms Co. Trap Gun which is only a few hundred dollars.
Single-barrelled trap guns seem to be of less interest to collectors than equal grade doubles, but this is an unusual gun. Less than 1200 D.M. Lefever guns were made in total, most of them doubles. The 41 is undoubtedly the serial number. Out of 1200 or out of a much smaller number of trap singles? I don't know.
Are you interested in value to sell, insure, or just brag?
Hope you find a Lefever specialist to help out. Good luck.
Blue Book says "Too rare to accurately determine values."
It is NOT the Lefever Arms Co. Trap Gun which is only a few hundred dollars.
Single-barrelled trap guns seem to be of less interest to collectors than equal grade doubles, but this is an unusual gun. Less than 1200 D.M. Lefever guns were made in total, most of them doubles. The 41 is undoubtedly the serial number. Out of 1200 or out of a much smaller number of trap singles? I don't know.
Are you interested in value to sell, insure, or just brag?
Hope you find a Lefever specialist to help out. Good luck.
JohnBT
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No idea here on the value.
John
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http://grayssportingjournal.com/stories/0803/feature_mark.shtml
"The Mark of a Gentleman
When shooting men wore ties, and the trap gun was all-American
by Terry Wieland"
"Almost within months of the Grand American becoming a strictly clay-target game, the first single-barrel trap gun appeared on the scene. According to Frank Conley’s The American Single Barrel Trap Gun, the very first (and one of the rarest) was made by the D.M. Lefever Company, Daniel Lefever’s last venture into the gun business. The new model was announced in the 1905 catalog, but only a few hundred were made. Lefever said it was introducing the gun to save American trapshooters the trouble and expense of buying a single-barrel from Europe. The company folded shortly after Lefever’s death in 1906."
John
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http://grayssportingjournal.com/stories/0803/feature_mark.shtml
"The Mark of a Gentleman
When shooting men wore ties, and the trap gun was all-American
by Terry Wieland"
"Almost within months of the Grand American becoming a strictly clay-target game, the first single-barrel trap gun appeared on the scene. According to Frank Conley’s The American Single Barrel Trap Gun, the very first (and one of the rarest) was made by the D.M. Lefever Company, Daniel Lefever’s last venture into the gun business. The new model was announced in the 1905 catalog, but only a few hundred were made. Lefever said it was introducing the gun to save American trapshooters the trouble and expense of buying a single-barrel from Europe. The company folded shortly after Lefever’s death in 1906."
JohnBT
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Singular Fox, the American Rifleman, Aug 2004 by McIntosh, Michael
"According to all the evidence, Dan Lefever built the first one made in America, and introduced it in his D.M. Lefever catalog of 1905. Demand clearly was low and production minuscule, somewhere between two dozen and 30 guns, before D.M. Lefever closed down in 1907. The Three Barrel Gun Company of West Virginia built the same gun from 1908to 1910.
It's fair to say that Uncle Dan's single made no appreciable impact upon either trapshooters or the gun industry. The Baker single, introduced in 1909, was the first of its kind to achieve any real success, as the Baker company operated on a well-planned and extensive program of advertising and promotion. seeing the possibility of offering something new in a fiercely competitive market already suffering from the nation's economic woes, other makers soon brought out single traps of their own-Ithaca in 1914, both Parker and L.C. Smith in 1917."
Singular Fox, the American Rifleman, Aug 2004 by McIntosh, Michael
"According to all the evidence, Dan Lefever built the first one made in America, and introduced it in his D.M. Lefever catalog of 1905. Demand clearly was low and production minuscule, somewhere between two dozen and 30 guns, before D.M. Lefever closed down in 1907. The Three Barrel Gun Company of West Virginia built the same gun from 1908to 1910.
It's fair to say that Uncle Dan's single made no appreciable impact upon either trapshooters or the gun industry. The Baker single, introduced in 1909, was the first of its kind to achieve any real success, as the Baker company operated on a well-planned and extensive program of advertising and promotion. seeing the possibility of offering something new in a fiercely competitive market already suffering from the nation's economic woes, other makers soon brought out single traps of their own-Ithaca in 1914, both Parker and L.C. Smith in 1917."
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