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I thought this might be of interest to some: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/gun-makingEbenezer Hands was well known, of course, as a stocker for Watson Bros and the trade. He had a tear drop signature on the comb of his stocks. He worked on well into his eighties. Tim
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Really interesting. I can remember the Pathe News bulletins at the cinema which preceeded the main film as a news item. Lagopus.....
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Front Shop; Roy Robson & Alan Lawrie
Workshop; Arthur Gwyn, Ebenezer Hands, Reg Taylor & Charlie Ganderton
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Lagopus, remember the projector cutting through the cigarette smoke and the ice cream lady walking backwards selling little tubs of Wall'a Ice cream, flat wooden spoon, using her flashlight to give you change?
Odeon Cinema, Colchester around 1959...
Then a visit to KD Radcliffe, fourth generation gunsmiths, they would let my pal Don and me upstairs to watch the gunsmith at work, what a treat!
Still there in operation as of last year
Sorry to go OT....
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No smoking in cinemas now thank goodness. And being forced to sit through a B movie before the main film. Lagopus.....
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Hello Tim, Great clip, thanks for posting. Imagine, a thousand quid for a pair of guns! According to the National Archives : In 1955, 1,000 0s 0d would have the same spending worth of 2005's 17,420.00JC
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Hi Mike,
Lived in Barrow-in-Furness in 1959 and remember Mivvi Ice Cream at the movies!
JC
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This is a great video. Please excuse the post to an old thread, but I have a related question. I am in the middle of a full restoration of a 16 bore Watson Bros. SLE (including the original case) from the 1900-1925 period. My gunsmith is working on the stock now. Does anyone have more information on the signature that Ebenezer Hands would carve into his stocks? A photograph would be great. I have read that the signature was very small and was on the comb itself, and not the teardrop type carving seen in the below image. I want to make sure the signature is preserved. Many thanks, Ed Watson Bros. stock teardrop
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Ed, there is a good colour photo close-up of the tear drop in Nigel Brown's Vol 1 London Gunmakers book.
Tim
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