Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
Sounds like you're trying to lump all English gun makers together...it can't be done.


HJ, not at all, I'm just trying to understand if the term back then had the same meaning that it has to me growing up in the late 20th century USA. I'm interested from the historical perspective only, and I know that the English used terms sometimes like Purveyor to communicate distribution rather than manufacturing, even if what they sold had their name on it.