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- Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:20 am
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Database sources - W Baker 10 1/2 Smith Street
- Replies: 3
- Views: 669
Re: Database sources - W Baker 10 1/2 Smith Street
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...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:52 am
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Database sources - W Baker 10 1/2 Smith Street
- Replies: 3
- Views: 669
Re: Database sources - W Baker 10 1/2 Smith Street
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...
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:53 pm
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Trying to find information about a gunmaker
- Replies: 1
- Views: 765
Re: Trying to find information about a gunmaker
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 ...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 11:57 am
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Richard Bolter - Tooting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 570
Re: Richard Bolter - Tooting
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...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:34 am
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Date of Manufacture
- Replies: 3
- Views: 767
Re: Date of Manufacture
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.
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:27 am
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Inherited D. Williamson shotgun (1906-1911?)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 809
Re: Inherited D. Williamson shotgun (1906-1911?)
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 ...
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:27 pm
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Thumb openers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 548
Re: Thumb openers
I presume you are talking about Purdey? Have you read the history in our database? It is all in there.
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:21 pm
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: Date of Manufacture
- Replies: 3
- Views: 767
Re: Date of Manufacture
Very poor info from 1904-1925. Is it Arthur Allan Ltd? What address is on the rib? Have you looked at our history? Is it ejector or hammerless?
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:43 pm
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: London proof marks on a .410 Hammergun
- Replies: 3
- Views: 867
Re: London proof marks on a .410 Hammergun
Your wife is going to be pleased with that black stain on her carpet. Try Swarfega, I use it on shirts, trousers everything. Dab it on, leave it for an hour or two, wash normally, deny everything. All Cogswell guns were all proved in London. This mark is either the lion rampant over GP mark or the L...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:23 am
- Forum: Shotgun
- Topic: R Bolter shotgun
- Replies: 3
- Views: 892
Re: R Bolter shotgun
He is not listed anywhere and was probably an employee of one of the London companies who made a gun for himself after he retired.