Here is J.Blanch & Son #5658
Both of those are gorgeous guns. You can definitely see the difference between the pinfire conversion gun that I have and bamboozler's made for centerfire sidelever gun, even though both are back actions, the hammers and other details around the hammers and breech are refined in his gun, very rough on mine. I wonder if J. Blanch did the conversion or another smith. I suspect that it wasn't done in house. The work isn't nice or finished to high quality standards of in-house work. As for Robert's hammerless, Merrington did a fantastic job on those barrels. Beautiful gun, thank you for posting it. I am thrilled to see all of these J. Blanch & Son guns here. Were they considered a first or second rank name in the trade in London or?
Brad
