doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Catching the dreaded Pin-Fire Disease

Thanks and we would like to see pictures of your pin-fire collection, perhaps on Stephen Nash's line where we are trying to compile everything known about pin-fires. Everything and every gun adds to knowledge.
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And sorry that parliament has now become so distrustful of their own citizens. Pretty sure Canada, New Zealand and Australia have followed suit.

Damascus AKA Luddite,

It is Ebrall . Sam Ebrall, Ebrall Brothers, Frankwell, Shropshire.

I hope you are keeping fit and well.

Hi Salopian! I am keeping well,ish and still coffin dodging but the distance between each when they show themselves is getting alarmingly shorter!
The Ebral Pinfire is as far as I can narrow its date to about 1840 also firming up the date is it has the most oversized and ugly hammers that are only seen on the very early guns. The gun is engraved SAMl.L Ebrall Shrewsbury sadly no adders on the barrels. Though I did post a photograph on the long runing Pinfire posting here. But I do not have much success with Image Hosting sites to the last one was imgur that being my last, it is about rime image hosting should be a part of this forum.

Found Damascus' image and will repost it. Can't be 1840 though. As discussed no UK pin-fires existed that we know of before about 1853 when Hodges completed his first apprentice gun and when Lang then bought the gun and brought out his first commercially marketed pin-fire sometime in early 1854 (or perhaps even as much as a year later). Perhaps it was converted from a Muzzle Loader? It would be interesting to see a photo of the action flats and barrel flats. It has an under-the-guard lever which could be either a single-bite Beringer style lump or a later Jones double bite. Gene

And Mr. Damascus the machine hating Luddite, sir: On an unrelated but curiously relative note, we have long understood you are from Cheshire. You are reputedly able to appear and disappear at will. Is there any truth to the tale? (The UK is full of these phantasmagorical but totally innate bits that cannot be excised from our psyches).