Grouser 47
Your gun is pictured in my 1925 G.E.Lewis & Sons catalogue. It is described as a "Keepers Hammer gun." With side clips the price listed is 12 pounds,12 shillings. By comparison their best side lock is priced at 60 pounds,[ add 10 pounds for Whitworth steel barrels].
In 1925 the business was located at 32-33 Lower Loveday Street, which was in the Old Birmingham Gun Quarter.
In 1978 I visited Birmingham to photograph what was left of the Gun Quarter, which at that time was being demolished to make way for a new road system.
One of my photographs shows the derelict G.E.Lewis & Sons shop front in Lower Loveday Street, with signs still in place proclaiming, " G.E.Lewis Gun & Rifle Makers." The next time that I visited Birmingham the building had been demolished!
G.E.Lewis used the following in adds to promote his guns,"THE GUN OF THE PERIOD"
You have very good example of the excellent hammer guns made by the Birmingham trade,enjoy!
Last edited by Roy Hebbes; 12/13/13 11:35 PM.
