Dear Collector

 

Welcome to this our first newsletter. We intend to publish them every other month, please bear with us as we refine and improve them to suit you. They will provide a snapshot of new items currently in stock, highlight a particularly interesting item of stock and inform you of forthcoming events and Arms Fairs.

 

There will also be informative articles which will build to form an invaluable reference resource for collectors. This month we have an excellent piece by De Witt Bailey on Baker Rifles. We will also include a book review highlighting in each newsletter a work that should be on every collector’s shelves.

 

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A magnificent pair of duelling pistols by Philip Bond, in original condition. 

 

 

 

An exceptional Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols, 10” octagonal sighted barrels engraved ‘P Bond No 45 Cornhill London’, Tower private proof marks & maker’s mark on l/h side of breeches. Tangs engraved with trophies & foliage & standing rear sights. Flat stepped bolted locks, the tangs engraved with trophies, safety bolts with original blue, lockplates engraved ‘P. Bond’, flat cocks with engraved trophies, roller frizzens & semi-waterproof pans. Walnut full stocks with barrel retaining slides with white metal escutcheons. Finely chequered butts with iron butt caps & spurred trigger guards with pineapple finials retaining all their original blue, set triggers, original ramrods with blued pipes & tail pipes. Contained in their original green baize lined oak case with accessories comprising copper & brass three way flask, bullet mould, double turnscrew, two piece cleaning rod, loading rod & ball withdrawing tool. Trade label of Philip Bond 45 Cornhill. C1795 Barrels retain their original colour, furniture virtually mint with minor rubbing to ramrod pipes, the whole set in very good condition. 

 

Price: £17995 

 

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A Good English Mortuary Rapier C1640
 

 

 

Good Bowie Knife. 19th Century  

 

British Military Flintlock Rifles 1740–1840

By De Witt Bailey

264 pages, 8.5” X 11” hardback

 

De Witt Bailey is widely accepted as the foremost authority on British military small arms. This book, the culmination of many years research traces the origins and evolution of the rifles used by British forces and their allies from the 1740s to the end of the flintlock era in the 1840s. With a wealth of detail relating to the rifles themselves, the units that were issued with them and the action that they saw. It contains over 300 photographs, details of proof marks, different production models and much technical data, this book is a must for collectors of British Military long guns.

 

We have a this book for sale at £45 inc. UK postage. Contact us to purchase your copy.

 

If this has whet your appetite for flintlock rifles please follow this link to read De Witt Bailey’s influential articles first published in ‘Guns Review’ in the 1973 (re printed on our website by his kind permission)