Author Topic: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel  (Read 1993 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Gashog

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 24
Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« on: April 02, 2020, 05:04:50 PM »
My Grandmother gave me this shotgun back in the early 1990's. She said it had been in the family as far back as she could remember. I see no date anywhere on it. A fine piece of family history.






Offline Larry D.

  • Bitter, Clinging Deplorable
  • Trade Count: (+12)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1715
  • Do the next right thing.
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2020, 06:07:37 PM »
Nice!
I love old doubles.
Η ΤΑΝ Η ΕΠΙ ΤΑΣ
-------------------

Thou shalt not test me.
Mood 24:7

Offline carls sks

  • Location: Culpeper, Virginia
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1420
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2020, 09:22:51 AM »
neat to have something that has been in family all these years, its definitely a family heirloom.
ARMY NAM VET, SO PROUD!

Offline firstchoice

  • Ozarks Ridge Runner
  • BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1289
  • "The Rolling W"-A.E.F. 89th Division-WW1-1917-1918
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2020, 04:23:16 AM »
Cool old double, for sure, Gashog! I've got my grandpa's old Stevens 16ga double that I remember as a kid watching him clean and oil it almost every day. He had bought it when he returned home from WW1 in 1919. I've heard stories about how he had a lot of trouble coming back to life here after that war. He was in the 155mm Howitzer artillery business in France. And business was good in WW1 France. So many stories. Cherish your family heirlooms and history.

firstchoice

Offline Bob_The_Student

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1273
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2020, 03:50:32 PM »
Awww, c'mon Gashog we need more photos than that. Let us see the family history in its entirety.

Offline Gashog

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 24
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2020, 11:50:58 AM »
A couple more:








Offline Gashog

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Newber
  • *
  • Posts: 24
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2020, 11:54:14 AM »
A here is a picture of my Grandparents, my Mom and her sister. Many years before I was born.


Online running-man

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Sniper
  • *
  • Posts: 6853
  • The only way to avoid Mosin #2 is avoid Mosin #1!
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2020, 12:54:59 PM »
Very neat history GH!  The stories they could probably tell about the Great Depression, dust bowl, WWII etc...  thumb1
      

Offline Bob_The_Student

  • SKS-FILES CONTRIBUTOR
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1273
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2020, 02:59:00 PM »
Very cool, indeed. Thanks for the additional photos.

Offline firstchoice

  • Ozarks Ridge Runner
  • BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION
  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Sharp-Shooter
  • *
  • Posts: 1289
  • "The Rolling W"-A.E.F. 89th Division-WW1-1917-1918
Re: Hopkins & Allen Double Barrel
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2020, 06:10:59 PM »
Very cool, Gashog! So much history!

Thanks for sharing!

firstchoice