Thank you, that does help. I just picked up a beautiful, single barrel percussion sporting gun signed only by William. My guess it was made early 1850's. The records are probably somewhat imcomplete, but I wanted to see how early the family was producing guns in Hertford.

Now, if only I can find a trade label to go with the gun...

Thanks again.

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