Re: L.C.Smith "Eagle Trap" 12 gage Archived Message
Posted by Researcher on November 23, 2007, 9:39 am, in reply to "Re: L.C.Smith "Eagle Trap" 12 gage " |
L.C. Smith guns after 1913 were manufactured in a number of named grades, from the lowest to highest -- Field, Ideal, Trap, Specialty, Eagle, Crown, Monogram, Premier, and DeLuxe. When the single barrel trap gun was introduced circa 1913 these same name grades were applied to the Trap Gun. Hence an Eagle Trap. Generally the single barrel trap gun was only made in Specialty grade and above, hence the vast majority are Specialty grades, 1830 according to Brophy. In the May 19, 1923 price list the Specialty Grade single trap sold for $138 net, while the Eagle trap sold for $187.75 net. There were also a couple of other grades briefly added into the single barrel trap line from time to time -- the somewhat cheaper Olympic of which 468 were built, making it the second most common single barrel trap gun, and a Whippet grade of which only 12 were built, all in the records between October 1927 and May 1928. Apparently there were too many grades in the L.C. Smith line and the Trap grade, and the Eagle grade were dropped from the line in later years.
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