Grant in Boys’ Single Shot Rifles records that: “Around 1904-1905 the company was manufacturing 186 varieties of revolvers, rifles and single and double-barrelled shotguns which found a market all over the United States and Canada. On Februtheir plant burned to the ground with the company suffering a loss estimated at $500,000 but, despite this, the concern reopened in new premises and soon was bigger and better than ever. As a result they reorganised as the Hopkins & Allen Arms Company in 1899 and began selling firearms direct to the shooting public. In 1897 Merwin & Hulbert went into liquidation owing H&A $90,000, the latter receiving just 10c in the dollar as settlement. All revolvers carrying the Merwin & Hulbert tag were actually made by Hopkins & Allen and both names are stamped on some of them.īy 1890 H&A was also turning out shotguns and a single shot boys’ rifle called ‘The Junior’ which was based on the Bay State rifle but wore the Merwin & Hulbert moniker. In the 1870s their entire stock was sold by Merwin & Hulbert who were the sole marketing agency for Hopkins & Allen. The Hopkins & Allen Manufacturing Company began producing firearms at Norwich, Connecticut in 1868, most of their early creations being revolvers. That all changed last year when I spent most of the latter part unable to do any serious hunting and, being not much good at sitting around doing nothing, I passed time researching my single shot collection and in the process came up with information about Hopkins & Allen I didn’t even know I had. Writing about the two Hopkins & Allen rifles I have in my collection of single shots is one of those things I’ve been meaning to do for years but never quite got around to.