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You are right, exceptional engraving. Why two sets of barrels both with choke and same chambering I don't know! May be 1st set were damaged and then repaired very well !

The gun dates to 1913. You can try to get hold of the guy in Royston but I doubt if he will be able to give you much more information. I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm but I don't think the gun is of any particular interest. Undoubtedly it will be of good quality and incorporating all Pape's u...

Hi Pete,

what is the serial number and address?

Hi Vernon, T K Baker undoubtedly produced a line of quality guns so no surprise that he got a Royal Appointment, but I have not seen any evidence that his son F T Baker produced high quality guns. The presence of another serial number on this gun is not good news as it suggests that the gun was boug...

Looks like your gun is one of those two ! W P Jones was an inventive and very skilled gunmaker, I have a personal connection in that in 1919 my grandfather (of R B Rodda & Co) made and patented the Rotax bullet for smoothbore shotguns subseqently manufactured by Kynoch and sold by Rodda in India...

Hi David, I wrote this about 15 years ago, it is now 9.45 am and I can't remember what I had for breakfast! I do know that it was from a reliable source, and that I had no independent confirmation. Strangely, reflecting on it now, I did not put this in the W P Jones history - I guess this was becaus...

I haven't come across the name before but it appears to be very common in Suffolk and quite common in the south of England. Henry Blomfield (or Bloomfield) Lankester was born the son of William Lankester on 27 March 1773 possibly in Ipswich Street, Stowmarket. He was apprenticed on 27 March 1798 to ...

Thanks to Stephen Grist we have the following: The Wilkes brothers always referred to Dickie (Richard J) Bolter as "Woodward's stocker". He was born into a military family in 1870 and was recorded as a gunmaker's woodworker in the 1901 census. The Wilkes had many stories about him as he wa...

Your gun is the Popular Ejector model probably made about 1926-1930 by C G Bonehill and just retailed by Arthur Allan. To find the history you have to register and pay for membership then click on Historical Database and enter Arthur Allen in the search boxes, don't enter anything else.

Hi Daniele, No serial numbers have been recorded for this maker. The gun was almost certainly made in Birmingham and it was definitely proved in Birmingham probably between 1906 and 1911. Williamsons were definitely a London gun retailer but they were never in Bridgenorth, or Ludlow. The value of a ...