Difference between revisions of "J.C. Higgins"
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J.C. Higgins was the sporting goods brand used by Sears, Roebuck and Co. from 1908 to 1964. The J.C. Higgins branding featured baseball equipment, golf equipment, bicycles, and even firearms, including a wide variety of rifles, shotguns, and handguns. | J.C. Higgins was the sporting goods brand used by Sears, Roebuck and Co. from 1908 to 1964. The J.C. Higgins branding featured baseball equipment, golf equipment, bicycles, and even firearms, including a wide variety of rifles, shotguns, and handguns. | ||
| − | + | These products were sourced from major manufacturers, and this applied to their firearms as well. They sourced their firearms from gun manufacturers such as Marlin and High Standard. Sears, Roebuck and Co. intended the firearms they sold to be affordable and utilitarian, consistent with other companies such as Montgomery Ward's "Western Field" branding. | |
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| + | After 1964, Sears replaced their J.C. Higgins lineup of products, with the "Ted Williams" branding. Although many other sporting items were still sold under this name, Sears stopped selling firearms at that point. | ||
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| + | ==Model & Manufacturer List== | ||
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| + | The website https://gun-data.com/sears_roebuck_guns.html has an incredible (and possible even exhaustive list) of firearms sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. | ||
Revision as of 02:17, 4 October 2019
History
J.C. Higgins was the sporting goods brand used by Sears, Roebuck and Co. from 1908 to 1964. The J.C. Higgins branding featured baseball equipment, golf equipment, bicycles, and even firearms, including a wide variety of rifles, shotguns, and handguns.
These products were sourced from major manufacturers, and this applied to their firearms as well. They sourced their firearms from gun manufacturers such as Marlin and High Standard. Sears, Roebuck and Co. intended the firearms they sold to be affordable and utilitarian, consistent with other companies such as Montgomery Ward's "Western Field" branding.
After 1964, Sears replaced their J.C. Higgins lineup of products, with the "Ted Williams" branding. Although many other sporting items were still sold under this name, Sears stopped selling firearms at that point.
Model & Manufacturer List
The website https://gun-data.com/sears_roebuck_guns.html has an incredible (and possible even exhaustive list) of firearms sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co.
