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Bill: William Evans worked both for Purdey's and Holland's before starting out on his own in 1883. The Evans gun that I have is marked "William Evans (From Purdey's)" Brown's book says "Starting as he did in the 1880's, Evans moved straight into the breech loading era and offered customers a very wide variety of types and grades of gun & rifle, including imported specimens, to suit every purse".
Evens bespoke highest grade guns that I've see would compare favouably with any of those of his former employers IMHO. 1915 serial numbers go from @11,000 to 11,436 although the ledger book for that period is missing.
Best Regards, George
To see my guns go to www.mylandco.com Select "SPORTING GUNS " My E-Mail palmettotreasure@aol.com
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My Wm Evans DR #4476 has been dated by them (by phone) to 1899.
They told me that they responded better outside of the hunting season.
Best regards,
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Thanks, George. I was quite disappointed when I read in Brown that the ledger book that I was interested in was not available.
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Most of the William Evans guns I have seem came out of Webley's factory. They used to have a display board on show at Game Fairs which was essentialy a gun stripped down and all the parts layed out .This was a Webley gun as well.
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Does this include full sidelock Evans guns stocked to the fences? Would such guns be considered to be sourced from Evans' shop? Thanks for replies.
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Is Mr. Brown's book just for Evans or all English guns?
I have an English gun with
Don't sacrifice the future on the altar of today
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He has 3 volumes---
Volume I - British Gunmakers: London
Volume II - British Gunmakers: Birmingham, Regional and Scotland,
VIII - British Gunmakers: Index, Appendices & Additional London, Birmingham, Regional And Scottish Records.
There are certainly others out there worth owning as well.
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Eightbore Evans had guns made by a number of people the large majority were by Webley & Scott . He was what was called a Gun Master ,in so much as he owned the company and had made or commissioned gun to be made to his specification and bearing his name and sold by him. The fact that he only maintained a small work shop and had no factory does not exclude him from being classed as gun maker. There were numerous other "makers" who out sourced all their production to the likes of Webley ,Midland, Holloways,Standard Gun,Wrights,etc.etc.
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Thanks for the information.
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