Crescent Firearms Crescent Firearms is the manufacturer of several styles of shotgun since 1888 to present. Most of the shotguns produced by Crescent Firearms were labeled with trade names of.
'From early 1960s, Crescent and Monark was actually the same bikes but with different colour, decals, badges, etc. They were the dominant brands in Swedish racing and also sold a lot in Norway and ... Finland.'
'The famous Pettersson brothers, with three consecutive TTT worlds titles 1967-1969 rode these bikes, two of them (Erik and Sture) on the orange Crescents while Gösta and Thomas rode the light blue Monark. Gösta won the 1971 Giro d'Italia on a Monark although that was a custom made bike, (said to be) De Rosa, painted blue. (Dirty joke of the late 70's: 'Do you know what the queen and Gösta Pettersson has in common? - The both have a Monark 'tween their legs')'
'In the late seventies the company marketed Crescent as the top end quality bike while Monark became a budget brand and was out of racing. This is still the case..(but) last year there once again was a Monark road racer on the market, at budget price. ..... I ride a 1968 Monark with Campy bar end gear changers and other goodies.'
'Today Crescent & Monark are two brands in a Swedish owned bike conglomerate including also Bianchi, Gitane and the Peugeot cycling division as well as Norwegian DBS and the group is the biggest on the European market.'
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Tomas Nilsson, Arvika, Sweden
Crescent Firearms Company History
- Crescent was bought by J. Stevens Arms Co., Division of Savage Arms Corp. It was merged with Davis-Warner Arms Corp. Successors to N.R. Davis & Sons Co. And became Crescent-Davis Arms Corp. In 1932 the operation was moved to the Stevens plant at Springfield, Mass. Where some sidelock doubles were assembled, Crescent-Davis brand guns.
- Crescent Firearms Co. 15 Empire Ejector Shotgun 12 Ga. 735914 from Christy s of Indiana.
- Crescent Firearms Company (That made your Double Barrel Shotgun)was best known for manufactureing what is referred to 'House Brand' shotguns and sold to retailers, distributors, mail order houses.
- View sold price and similar items: Four Crescent Arms Side by Side Hammerless Shotguns -A) Crescent Number 44.410 Shotgun B) Crescent Firearms Peerless Shotgun C) Crescent Firearms Peerless Model Shotgun D) Crescent Firearms Peerless Model Shotgun from Rock Island Auction Company on Invalid date CST.