This all-new volume sets out the history of Birmingham, Scottish, and regional gunmakers and specialist trade workers through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book contains an alphabetical listing of the businesses and individuals with their dates and addresses. Separate listings identify the brand names used by them and the patents they registered along with additional information on proof marks.
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Nigel Brown has been involved with the British gun trade, especially the London trade, for many years. For thirteen years, until 1991, he was legal advisor to, and subsequently secretary of, the Gun Trade Association. In addition, he sat on the legal and education team of WAGBI, now the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
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Excellent Reference Material on British Guns,
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This review is from: British Gunmakers: Vol.2, Birmingham, Scotland & the Regions (Hardcover)
Volume 2 of Nigel Brown's series of books on British Gunmakers deal with Birmingham, Scotland & the regional gunmakers and trade workers of the 19th and 20th centuries and is even more impressive than Volume 1 (London). It also measures roughly 9" wide x 12" high, but extends 460 information packed pages in hard cover and dust jacket. As part of a set it is in all respects similar to Volume 1 with a durable dust jacket, 34 historical b&w photos and 28 truly magnificent colour photographs of guns made in these regions. It is printed on heavy mat art paper with an easy to read font size. It is a reference work, but it is coffee table quality.
Volume 2 consists of a 19-page introductory section with followed by Part 1 (p22-p67) which provides individual histories of 60 gunmaker. Part 2 (p72-p149) provides more historic and biographical information as well as detailed lists and tables of dates and serial numbers of those gunmakers of which records had been preserved. Part 3 (p152-p367) is a comprehensive list of all relevant gunmakers and related trades. Brown provides names and name changes, trades, addresses and address changes and important dates. As said at the Volume 1 review, the only thing I miss here to have made this book absolutely perfect is the biographical dates (birth-death) of the individuals listed. Part 4 (p380-p460) contains lists of the brand names, proofmarks (illustrated and defined) conversion tables (including currency conversions) as well as a detailed index. This is an invaluable reference work for scholars and serious enthusiasts, but it is not something you can read in large doses.
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poor in pictures,
This review is from: British Gunmakers: Vol.2, Birmingham, Scotland & the Regions (Hardcover)
poor in pictures, i was expecting a much more balance review in terms of manufacturers history and reputation
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Akrills were established in Beverley, Yorkshire in 1828 by Esau Akrill who had been apprenticed there to William Taylor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Steelhouse Lane, Mary's Row, Westley Richards, New Bldgs, Weaman Row, Upper Priory, West Bromwich, Eley Kynoch, Summer Lane, Thomas Turner, Eley Bros, High Street, John Dickson, Newtown Row, Harpers Bldgs, William Powell, Bury St Edmunds, Price Street, Snow Hill, Constitution Hill, Kings Lynn, Year Serial Nos Year Serial Nos, Arthur Turner, John Deeley, Alex Martin New!
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