What year and by who it was made
Guns marked as Witte's Special were PROBABLY made by Iver Johnson, and were marketed by Witte's Hardware in St Louis. A lot of hardware store brands made exact copies of famous guns, they looked great and they fooled a lot of people. The famous Westly Richards, was W. Richards, and was about $600 cheaper. LC Smith, was AC Smith, again, fooled a lot of people, anyway, I couldn't find the date of your gun, I believe it was a .410 shotgun, and wasn't too old when your grandpa got it. They are not worth very much. I'm surprised to see a serial number on that, most old guns didn't have numbers at all.Hope this helps.
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