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Questions to the cognoscenti. These three lockmakers from Wolverhampton, are regarded being the top ones during the heyday of the English sport shotgun era. They worked for the trade. There is any record on whether any of them did excel or had a preference for a particular type of lockwork? Were their lockplates so different in their internal arragements (even those with the same amount of pins) that could be recognized from outside in the way the lock pins were distributed over the plate? Did they issued their own patents? The most important gunmakers, had they a noticiable preference for any one of these lockmakers or for a particular type of lockplate they made? There is any publication or author that did address this issue? EJSXS
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There is a comprehensive documentation in the Internet on the Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers http://www.wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk.I recommend you to contact the author, he may have the answer to your questions. Cheers Felix Neuberger
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Felix,
thanks, I did stumble with that website before, but it leads me to a shopping website wholy unrelated with our subject matter. (Do am I strinking the wrong keys?). EJSXS
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I checked and the page is no longer active.
I had access to it sept 3, 2015 and then it has been a
very detailed 18-page document.
The e-mail of the author given in this document
has been:
wolverhampton-glms (at) fsmail.net
or
cvcl (at) wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk.
Author has been C.V.Clark with last revision of document
april 2015.
Propose to contact him by e-mail, if this
does not work, then I recommend you to contact
the Holts folks, they should know where to continue.
Cheers
Felix
Last edited by felix; 09/01/18 01:32 PM.
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If you can source a copy of 'Gun and Gun Part Makers of Staffordshire' by M A Newland that should have loads of information that you seek. If you are struggling I may be able to photocopy parts from the book and send them on. Lagopus.....
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Damn! I often used the site for reference. Now its gone.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Felix, thanks for your advise, I will send a mail to that person.
Lagopus, I am aware that your book is difficult to find (Bookdepository, my usual book source in the UK, does not have it). Now, if you see that your copy has relevant information that may help me, please let my know and we could find a way to obtain another copy in the British secondhand market. Thanks in advance.
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I checked and the page is no longer active.
I had access to it sept 3, 2015 and then it has been a
very detailed 18-page document.
The e-mail of the author given in this document
has been:
wolverhampton-glms (at) fsmail.net
or
cvcl (at) wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk.
Author has been C.V.Clark with last revision of document
april 2015.
Propose to contact him by e-mail, if this
does not work, then I recommend you to contact
the Holts folks, they should know where to continue.
Cheers
Felix
Any eMail/web addresses with "fslife", "fsnet", "fsmail", "freeserve" are likely to be out of use because the organisation that supplied them (FreeServe, an early UK based ISP) was taken over by Orange and those addresses were closed.
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John,
One reference source for the subject lock makers is located in the book; English Gunmakers of the 18th and 19th century; By, De Witt Bailey and Douglas A. Nie.
Under the listings for the city of Wolverhampton there is recorded good information on the subject lock makers.
Roy Hebbes
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John,
One reference source for the subject lock makers is located in the book; English Gunmakers of the 18th and 19th century; By, De Witt Bailey and Douglas A. Nie.
Under the listings for the city of Wolverhampton there is recorded good information on the subject lock makers. Thanks Roy, I wasn't looking in fact, but noted that the addresses being quoted were now bound to be "no longer active" since the domains have been closed, but thanks anyway and I'm sure your reference will be of use to others here.
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