[winnie1959]

I found a 12ga Simmon's Hardware in the attic of an old house we bought in the 70's.. Single, all steel, stamped with a K K on the reciever, like someone's initials. A0120 on the 30" barrell. Simmon's Hardware on the 'BakeLite' butt plate.

I benched it everything checked out. This old thing fires good but one heck of a kick even with bird shot.

Anyone know about these?

Simmon's Hardware of St. Louis founded in 1866 sold in 1940. They also made Kleen Kutter tools.

[pajaro]

in my store brand to manufacturers cross reference, i have 4 "simmons" listings.... no "simmons hardware"..... they show 2 simmons 411, and 2 simmons 411E..... all listed as being made by savage.... not sure if this will help you......

[miekelle]

The bible for info. on older shotguns made by other than the big name manufactures is the "Golder Age Of Shotguning" by Bob Hinman. In the index of this book he lists literally hunderds of old brand name shotguns along with some info on the co. Unfortunatly all he has to say about a co. called the Utica Firearms Co. is "Hammer double-barrel. Nothing further known." He must have put an extreme amount of research into this obscure list of manufactures (and this was 30 to 40 years ago) and to have come up with "nothing further known" is not very incouraging. My guess is that this Utica Firearms Co. is the manufacture of your shotgun.