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Mississippi Valley Arms Company: Trade name by the H. & D. Folsom Arms Company on firearms made for the Shapleigh Hardware Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Folsom was a wholesale/retail company and the guns were manufactured by their subsidiary company, Crescent Firearms of Meriden, CT, or by various Belgian makers.

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Mississippi Valley Arms was a trade name used by the Shapleigh Hardware Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The shotguns were manufactured by various gunmakers, primarily by companies such as Crescent Arms and J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. It was a common practice for hardware stores to have firearms made with the store's own brand name.

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