For a historian trying to compile a database of serial numbers and gun types for a lost UK gunmaker, to try to recreate the records and date the guns, these catalogs are a bonanza. It's a shame there isn't some sort of central record for them which can be accessed. For instance UK newspapers for several centuries can be accessed at this site and key word searched:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/I'm wondering if the people scanning the newspapers would be interested in so scanning these catalogs. Obviously the technology exists.
