Who makes a shotgun with Bluegrass engraved on the side?

Answer 1

It is a Essex Arms shotgun made by the Belknap tool Company of Louisville KY

Bluegrass was the trade name for a broad variety of high quality steel hand tools. Sold in hardware stores all over the South and Mid Atlantic. They made Saws, Pitchforks Coffee pots But they are most well known for their Number 47 16 oz Hammer. The company folded in the mid 1980s. Bluegrass products can be identified by a small three leaf clover that would say Bluegrass Louisville KY.. The other side would normally say Belknap Tool Co. These shotguns ranged from lower priced farmers shotguns to higher priced models that could be ordered with no markings. Shotguns like these were sold all over North America with different names from the late 1880s until the depression. They are commonly called

''Hardware Store Guns"