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I spotted this in Dover Street, London recently. What would John Robertson have made of it?

Tim

Al, this was only a Provisional Patent, so in all likelihood no actual examples were ever produced commercially. Below is a quick description of the patent, the drawing that accompanied it and a link to the original patent document in full. Tim Improvements in or Additions to Sporting and Military G...

I was just reviewing some of my gun photos when I came across this beauty, which I mentioned in passing in a report from an Holts auction in 2017. I recall being drawn to it from a distance, immediately recognising the quality of workmanship, initially on the barrels but then, on closer inspection, ...

Well that’ll make a wonderful gun for someone, Jorgen.

The 700 is always popular but the rarer, better 701 even more so.

Tim

The Army and Navy CSL archives are held at Glasgow University. You can search them yourself in person or pay them to do so from afar.

A & N records often include a coded entry for the original maker of their guns.

Tim

Never. If that had happened to a best gunmaker, they would have sent it back to the engraver, or binned the lock plates, I suspect.

Interesting anomaly though.

Tim

Ken

The gun sold at Holts in Dec 2013 for £1,200, which was it's top end estimate.

It is an interesting gun but not one that folk would consider for usual wildfowling. It perhaps would be best kept by a collector, who knew what they had and might shoot it occasionally at the clay range.

Tim

Not the best known names in the business. Yet they were involved with the best. Herbert was Frederick Beesley's son and a gunmaker in his own right. He carried on managing the business after his father retired in 1927 for another 12 years, until he sold up to Grant & Lang just before the outbreak of...

I find the simplest way to post photos to any forum is using JPG Box: http://www.jpgbox.com/submit.html? Easy, quick and effective. Open the page, source your photo from your computer, copy the link for forum use that results and paste it into your post. Picking up on your point about restoration Ro...

Ken, according to Nigel Brown, Richard Gallyon has them.

Tim