Air rifles pre 1939
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Vintage wood handle Parker Hale type cleaning rod 28.5” long c1930s to 1950s only £12.00 collection from our shop only. These also fit in to Webley Service air rifle cases/boxes.
SOME SOLD ITEMS FOR YOUR REFERENCE
AIRGUN SALES AND AMMUNITION TO OVER 18 YEAR OLDS ONLY, ID IS ALWAYS REQUIRED
Stock No: 0407
Price: £995.00
Year: c1868
Calibre: 7mm
DAVID LURCH
SECONDARY NEW YORK TYPE GALLERY GUN
This is a special rare collector’s item. Made by David Lurch in New York about 1865 to 1870. This is a underlever cocking gallery gun which was later copied in Germany and became the well know Bugelspanner. However this has a totally different and interesting trigger mechanism. This example is in good condition retaining some original finish to the cylinder and barrel the name David Lurch clearly impressed on the barrel near the breach along with some other letters and numbers. Original open sights are fitted, very large diameter cylinder for a double volute mainspring. This had had has had some repairs around the pistol grip in apparently a long time ago, a brass plate has been put over some repaired cracks around the pistol grip where the wood must be quite thin because a lever comes through to enable cocking. The barrel twists to one side for loading and is a very clean smooth bore. Lurch is one of the most well known makers of such rifles and is well reported in various books concerning such antiques. Nice brass fitted butt plate and shaped cheek piece, a good quality air rifle hand made for gallery shooting in New York.
JOHN BULL, BEDFORD
Year: c1848-
Calibre: .30 rifled, .50” smooth
Stock ref: 0641
£3550.002700.00
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This antique air rifle/air shotgun is in lovely condition. The action has some really nice engraving on it on both sides and top, scroll work on the hammer and with the makers name J Bull, Bedford in a banner within scroll work on the left hand side. There is no pitting the metal is smooth and a light brown antique type finish. The barrel is a brown Damascus twist effect in good order and with some light engraving to it. The butt is covered in what we believe to be the original shark skin known as shagreen which is the skin of a shark or a ray. Complete with a period pump with handle, bullet mould for 6 bullets and a foot plate. Also in a compartment is a tub of lead shot, a shot measurer, another tool marked “Baylis and Son Patent” and some wads for the shot. The case has been more recently made to fit this assembly and is a nice quality wood possibly oak with brass corners and escutcheons there is a lock but we do not have the key so have not been able to test the lock. Overall a really nice quality English made air gun. Interestingly and somewhat unusually this has a rifled c.30 cal barrel that fits in with a bayonet fit to the outer .50 inch smoothbore barrel. There is a pin across the rifled barrel so you can not push the ball in too far using the loading rod. There is a safety bypass on this so you can de cock it without firing should a hunting opportunity be missed you do not have to fire it off. A truly lovely item. There is a trade label in the top of the case for J Beattie of 205 Regent Street London. A similar rifle/shotgun matching almost exactly this pattern has been with a similar trade label in the lid so we made a copy of that and put it with this one. We have never seen a trade label for John Bull of Bedford as they were only in business a short period of time being 1846 to 1854 at High Street Bedford. James Beattie was at 205 Regent Street from 1848-
Stock number 0721
Price: £1295.001800.00
Year: c1870s
Calibre: c6mm
ANTIQUE GERMAN STRIKE PUMP AIRGUN
What a fantastic lump of an antique airgun. This is beautifully made, very heavy, very solid. It is a strike pump gun which basically consists of a spring and piston within the butt that is cocked and uses two leaf springs. The mechanism works but it takes a lot of effort to cock those two leaf springs and the power output is not great. This would have been used for shooting darts at very close range. The barrel is massive being fully octagonal and about an inch in thickness. With its original fully adjustable rear sight which is a lovely bit of mechanics and a very nice fine post front sight within an open shroud. This has a double set trigger mechanism, you cock the back trigger and then the front trigger is truly a hair mechanism. The airgun is in good condition with the barrel being mostly brown finish. The stock is nice but with one major crack on the underside that looks to have been repaired but is structurally perfectly sound. massive cast heavy butt plate and very fancy trigger guard allowing you to hold it with all your fingers comfortably. This really is a nice quality item. No engraving, the metal work is plain and the woodwork is plain apart from a heavy large Tyrolean cheek piece and some sort of oak leaf carving on the front end. A really nice antique. Also it is complete with what we believe to be its original cocking handle. Overall length is about 44” and weighs more than we can weigh with our 5kg postal scales!
Stock No: 0723
Price: £270.00
Year: c1912-
Calibre: .177 smoothbore
QUACKENBUSH
MODEL 7
This is something you do not see every day. In fact this is only the 2nd one we have ever seen in the flesh as it were. This is basically a cheapened and lightened version of Quackenbush’s original model 1 using the same principal of the barrel sliding in to cock then sliding out after loading but made of a tubing rather than casting. This example is a little bit tired with some pitting on the barrel and a slither of wood thin slither missing on the fore end, metalwork is grey and slightly grainy overall. The spring seems quite week but is present and probably original. Has had a hole drilled through the butt presumably for the fitting of a sling of some sort and has an s ring through the drop down tab on the underside of the barrel. Markings are visible on top of the cylinder being H M Quackenbush Herkimer NY and then the patent numbers. Generally complete apart from aforementioned slither of wood. An interesting little antique.
Stock No: 0978A
Price: £1250.00
Year: C1845-
Calibre: C .33” BORE
BALL RESERVOIR
BY JOHN WHEELER
this is a nice quality ball reservoir gun which measurers only 41 inches long which is shorter than most, it also has an unusual twist off stock so it could be stored in a small case. Condition is quite good, the browned barrel is evenly pitted overall and the markings of the maker’s mark are only just visible on the side plate but there is enough to see that it was John Wheeler of Birmingham who was based at 49 Whittall Street between 1845 and 1850. Original Ball fitted which is a small size ball, there may have been repairs around where the ball fits as this is a metal section and doesn’t look quite right although it’s difficult to be certain as this is quite an unusual specification air gun generally. Basic open sites fitted some engraved decoration on the top tang and top edge of the lock plate and some further engraving on the side of the top plate and on the cocking hammer. Nicely shaped trigger guard, an interesting collector’s item. It has a single set trigger and has a rifled barrel.
Stock No: 0979A
Price: £845.00
Year: c1820S
Calibre: 10mm (0.4”)
ANTIQUE BALL RESERVOIR GUN
THIS IS A VERY EARLY BAL;L RESERVOIR AIRGUN THAT HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO SOME EXTENSIVE RESTORATION. IT IS A TAP LOADER WITH A VERY LARGE LEVER OPENING AT THE CHAMBER. SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT BSA OR LINCOLN JEFFRIES INVENTED THE TAP LOADING AIR RIFLE BIT ITS NOT THE CASE. THIS PRECEDED IT #BY ABOUT 180 YEARS. ALL BRASS ACTION WHICH HAS BEEN CLEANED UP, WITH A BRASS TRIGGER GUARD. STOCK IS NEWLY MADE, ORIGINAL BALL IS FITTED, COPPER TYPE THAT HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO SOME REPAIRS UNDERNEATH AND THEREFORE SHOULD NOT EVER BE PRESSURISED. BARREL HAS BEEN RE POLISHED AND REBLUED, HAMMER MECHANISM IS WORKING, HAS SOME SOMER LIGHT ENGRAVING ON IT, HAS A TINY REAR SIGHT ON THE TOP OF THE BLOCK, THE BALL AS THEY WERE AT THIS AGE IS VERY CLOSE TO THE TRIGGER. AN INTERESTING EARLY BALL RESERVOIR AIRGUN.
Stock No: 1178
Price: £580.00
Year: c1730-
Calibre: c7mm SMOOTH BORE
ANTIQUE CRANK WOUND AIR GUN
THIS IS A REALLY ANCIENT AIR GUN. IT IS COCKED USING A DETACHABLE LEVER OPERATING ON A SQUARE LUG AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STOCK. WE BELIEVE THERE WILL BE A SPRING PISTON MECHANISM INSIDE THE HOLLOW STOCK. THERE ARE NO MAKER’S MARKS THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN USED FOR SHORT RANGE TARGET SHOOTING INDOORS USING LARGE DARTS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY ACCURATE BUT NOT THAT POWERFUL. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ADJUSTABLE PEEP SIGHT FITTED THIS IS MISSING. IT DOES HAVE A MIDDLE REAR SIGHT WHICH SEEMS FIXED RATHER THAN ADJUSTABLE AND A MINUSCULE FRONT SIGHT. THE METALWORK IS A CLEANED OFF SILVERISH GREY WITH PITTING AND PATINA OVERALL. THE FULL LENGTH STOCK IS FAIRLY GOOD HAS A REPAIR ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE HOLLOW SHELL OF THE BUTT. BONE FORE END TIP AND CLEANING AND RAM ROD WHICH SEEMS ORIGINAL TO THE GUN. A LITTLE LEVER IS PUSHED AND THE BARREL OPENS UP TO SHOW THE LARGE OCTAGONAL BARREL WITH A BORE OF ABOUT 7mm CALIBRE. WE HAVE NOT TESTED THE MECHANISM AND WE DON'T KNOW IF THE MECHANISM IS INSIDE AS WE HAVE NOT OPENED THE GUN.. IT APPEARS TO HAVE HAD A SET TRIGGER MECHANISM BIT THE VERY THIN WIRE ‘HAIR’ TRIGGER HAS BROKEN OFF LEAVING JUST THE MAIN TRIGGER IN PLACE. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A DECORATIVE ITEM BEING ABOUT 270 YEARS OLD. ISH.
NOTE: WE HAVE MORE/BETTER EXAMPLES OF THIS GUN COME AND SEE US.
Stock No: 1181
Price: £795.00
Year: EARLY 1800s
Calibre: 7.5mm
JOS KREUG OF LINZ (AUSTRIA)
THIS IS A REALLY NICE OLD ANTIQUE AIRGUN. IT HAS A SPIGOT IN THE STOCK WHICH WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED A CRANK TO COMPRESS BELLOWS OR COMPRESS A SPRING WE BELIEVE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A SPRING PISTON UNIT WE HAVE NOT OPENED THE GUN TO SEE WHAT IT IS. THIS IS A REALLY NICE QUALITY ITEM WITH LOTS OF BRASS WORK AND NICE FEATURES ABOUT IT. IT IS A GALLERY GUN FOR SHOOTING INDOORS AT TARGETS, WOULD OF HAD A DIOPTER PEEP SIGHT ON THE BACK BUT THIS IS MISSING BUT THE POST WHERE IT WOULD HAVE GONE AND THE SCREW THAT WOULD HAVE RETAINED IT ARE STILL THERE. HAS A DOUBLE SET TRIGGER WHEREBY YOU PULL THE REAR TRIGGER TO SET THE FRONT HAIR LIKE TRIGGER TO GIVE A VERY NICE LIGHT TRIGGER PULL. THIS MECHANISM IS WORKING. ENGRAVED ON TOP OF THE BARREL IOS KREUG IN LINZ. WE BELIEVE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN JOS FOR JOSEPH OR SIMILAR KREUG IN LINZ WHICH IS IN AUSTRIA. HAS ALSO A MIDDLE REARSIGHT WITH A TINY LITTLE NOTCH IN IT AND A BONE FRONT SIGHT IN A DOVE TAIL. WITH AS DECORATIVE RAM ROD, THE BARREL OPENS FOR LOADING A DART OF QUITE LARGE CALIBRE, THE BARREL BORE ITSELF IS A BIT DIRTY IT HAS NOT HAD ANYTHING THROUGH THE BARREL FOR MANY YEARS BY THE LOOKS OF IT. A NICE DECORATIVE ANTIQUE THERE ARE NOT MANY 250 YEAR OLD GUNS YOU CAN BUY FOR THIS SORT OF PRICE. THE CONDITION IS REAsonably good there is some obvious old repairs TO THE WOOD WHICH IS RATHER THIN IN THE BUTT AREA AS IT CONTAINS A MECHANISM. ALSO THERE IS A SMALL PIECE OF DECORATIVE BRASS MISSING IN FRONT OF THE TRIGGER GUARD AND A COUPLE OF CRACKS AND REPAIRS TO THE FORE END WHICH HAVE BEEN DONE IN PART OF ITS ANCIENT HISTORY.
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IMPROVED BRITANNIA TOOL
Stock number 1206
£94.00
Stock number 1207
£90.00
Stock number 1213
£98.00
Stock number 1216
£95.00
Stock number 1222
£120.00 SOLD
Stock number 1223
£110.00
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Stock No: 1217
Price: £68.00
Year: 1935 JULY
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
DIANA
MODEL 20
THIS AIR GUN WAS MADE 90 YEARS AGO BUT IS STILL BASICALLY COMPLETE BUT WITH A NON ORIGINAL REAR SIGHT. THE METALWORK HAS BEEN COATED IN BLACK PAINT STOCK HAS ALSO BEEN VARNISHED, THE DIANA TRADE MARK IS STILL JUST VISIBLE THROUGH THE PAINT ON TOP OF THE TRIGGER BLOCK.
Stock No: 1182
Price: £290.00
Year: c1905
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
LANES
MUSKETEER
THE LANES MUSKETEER IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST BRITISH AIR RIFLES TO HIT THE MARKET, IT PREDATED BSA UNDERLEVER AND THE BRITANNIA BUT WAS NOT AROUND FOR VERY LONG. IT IS A STRAIGHT FORWARD BREAK BARREL RIFLE WITH A VERY NEAT BARREL RELEASE LOCK MECHANISM AND A TRIGGER ASSEMBLY THAT WAS DESIGNED BY HARRY GREENER A FAMOUS SHOT GUN MAKER. THIS EXAMPLE IS IN FAIR CONDITION THE METALWORK BEING A BROWN EVEN GRAINY FINISH BUT WITH NICE CLEAR MARKINGS ON TOP OF THE TRIGGER BLOCK AND THE MUSKETEER JUST ABOUT VISIBLE ON THE ROUND BARREL. WE BELIEVE THE STOCK TO BE A NEWLY MADE REPLICA, IT COULD BE AN ORIGINAL WAS THAT HAS BEEN HEAVILY CUT DOWN AND MODIFIED BUT WE RECKON ITS A NICELY MADE NEW ONE, THEY HAVE EVEN GONE TO THE TROUBLE OF INLETING THE BUTT PLATE AT THE TOP SO ITS A SIMILAR SHAPE TO THE ORIGINAL. A NICE COLLECTOR’S ITEM THAT ARE NOT THAT COMMON NOW.
Stock No: 1248
Price: £225.00
Year: c1927
Calibre: .22
BSA
S STANDARD
THIS IS AN INTERESTING RIFLE. WHICH HAS TRAVELLED THE WORLD IT IS BASICALLY AN S SERIES BSA STANDARD UNDERLEVER WHICH IS THE LONG .22 VERSION IN QUITE GOOD CONDITION, THE METALWORK BEING A BLACK TO BROWN EVEN GRAINY FINISH. MOST COMPONENTS COMPLETE BUT THE BEAD HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE FRONT SIGHT AND THE REAR SIGHT BLADE HAS SNAPPED THROUGH AT THE NOTCH, ALSO THE TRIGGER GUARD SCREWS ARE REPLACEMENTS. AS IS THE UNDER LEVER AXIS SCREW WHICH IS A NEW REPLACEMENT THAT WE FITTED. THE REST OF IT IS QUITE SOLID AND ORIGINAL. NO PHOTO ETCHING MARKS ARE VISIBLE ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER. SOME MARKS AND SCRATCHES TOI THE STOCK BUT NOTHING BEYOND WHAT YOU MIGHT EXPECT FROM A 98 YEAR OLD GUN. INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS RIFLE IS THAT STAMPED ON TOP OF THE BARREL ARE THE WORDS L PLATON BATAVIA-
TELESCOPIC SIGHT MOUNTING BRACKET, EXCLUSIVE TO PROTEK
This bracket gives you a standard scope rail on your gun. Fits all BSA Improved model B Improved model D, A, C, L, S, T,and CS (will not fit Juvenile or Military patterns). No need to take rifle apart, this device clamps either side and gives 11mm scope rail to take any 9-
Part number B646
£28.99
Here is one fitted. (Gun, scope & mounts not supplied although they are available from us)
BAILEY COLUMBIAN
MODEL 1898
MADE 1898
.177BB
£395
Stock number 1064
HEILPRIN COLUMBIAN
MODEL E
C1912-
.177BB
£345
Stock number 1065
THIS IS A LOVELY PIECE OF AMERICAN HISTORY WHICH IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE AS MUCH AS US, THIS A LEVER ACTION TIN PLATE RIFLE OF VERY NICE DESIGN THIS EXAMPLE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, IT WAS PART OF THE ROBERT BEEMAN COLLECTION AND WAS PICTURED IN THE BLUE BOOK OF AIRGUNS eg THE 11th EDITION PAGE 209 AND IN MOST OTHER EDITIONS PICTURED AS WELL. MADE IN SMALL NUMBERS FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS IS AN INTERESTING DESIGN WITH A SAFETY CATCH ON THE BACK WHICH YOU HAVE TO PRESS IN TO PULL THE TRIGGER, ALL MARKINGS NICE AND CLEAR, THE HEILPRIN DETAIL;S AND PATENT ON ONE SIDE AND 1000 SHOT COLUMBIAN MODEL E ON THE OTHER. A NICE RARE COLLECTABLE ITEM.
THIS IS A REALLY NICE QUALITY BB GUN AS FAR AS WE ARE AWARE IT WAS ONLY PRODUCED FOR A YEAR IN 1898 BEFORE IT WAS REPLACED BY THE 1899 MODEL. WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS A 1000 SHOT REPEATER ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOT SURE HOW TO LOAD IT, THERE IS A HOLE IN THE TOP AND A BB COULD BE MUZZLE LOADED THERE IS A KNURLED SECTION JUST AHEAD OF THE CYLINDER BUT IT DOES NOT SEEM TO WANT TO MOVE. HOWEVER THE LEVER ACTION WORKS#. THE GUN IS IN SUPERB CONDITION RETAINING VIRTUALLY ALL ITS JAPANNED OR PAINTED BLACK FINISH. THIS WAS PART OF THE ROBERT BEEMAN COLLECTION AND IS PICTURED IN THE BLUE BOOK OF AIRGUNS AND WE BELIEVE IN MOST EDITIONS. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUPERIOR QUALITY AIRGUN BACK IN THE DAY IT COST AN AWFUL LOT MORE THAN THE EQUIVALENT DAISY’S AND OTHER MODELS SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A RICH BOY OR VERY LUCKY ONE WHO HAD THIS AS HIS BB GUN. RETAINS MOST OF ITS ORIGINAL NICKEL PLATING TO THE BARREL OBVIOUSLY HAD VERY LITTLE USE . A NICE QUALITY COLLECTOR’S ITEM.
BUY BOTH TOGETHER FOR £690.00
COMMISSION SALE VT
Price: £390.00
Year: c1925
Calibre: .177
QUACKENBUSH
MODEL 9
THIS IS A SCARCE MODEL OF QUACKENBUSH NOT OFTEN SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY, ITS A MODEL 9 WHICH IS SIMILAR TO A MODEL 2 BUT WITH A DIFFERENT BARREL FITTING. INTERESTINGLY THE SERIAL NUMBER ON THE BLOCK STARTED OFF AS A 10 BUT THE ZERO HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A 9 AND THE THE 1 HAS BEEN VERY SLIGHTLY POLISHED OUT. ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS ARE OF A QUACKENBUSH MODEL 9. THIS IS IN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD CONDITION RETAINING LOTS OF ITS ORIGINAL NICKEL PLATING, JUST WITH A FEW MINOR SPOTS DOWN ONE SIDE. ALL MARKINGS ARE NICE AND CLEAR AND CRISP, PROBABLY THE ORIGINAL FLAT SECTION SPRING FITTED, ORIGINAL SIGHTS. STOCK MAY HAVE BEEN RUBBED DOWN OR IT MAY BE ORIGINAL, DUE TO THE METALWORK BEING IN SUCH GOOD CONDITION WE WOULD ERR ON THE SIDE OF IT BEING THE ORIGINAL FINISH TO THE STOCK. LOTS OF NICKEL PLATE LEFT ON THE BUTT PLATE, OVERALL A VERY NICE EXAMPLE OF A SCARCE MODEL OF QUACKENBUSH.
Stock No: 1314
Price: £195.00
Year: c1936
Calibre: 177
BSA
BREAKDOWN PATTERN
THIS RIFLE IS IN ACTUALLY VERY NICE CONDITION. THE BREAKDOWN PATTERN SEEMS TO BE LESS COMMON THAN THE UNDERLEVERS OF THE PERIOD EVEN THOUGH THE BREAKDOWN PATTERN WAS CHEAPER. WE GUESS THAT PURCHASERS THAT DIDN'T GO FOR THE UNDERLEVER WOULD HAVE GONE FOR FOREIGN MUCH CHEAPER VERSIONS. THIS EXAMPLE HAS A NICE EVEN BLACK TO BROWN FINISH BUT SOME AREAS LIKE UNDER THE COCKING LINK ARE THE ORIGINAL FACTORY BLACK FINISH. ALL SCREWS SIGHTS AND FITTINGS ARE FINE AND GOOD. THE BSA PYLARM MARK IS CRISPLY STAMPED IN TO THE BREECH BLOCK THE PHOTO ETCHING ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER IS ONLY VISIBLE UNDER A VERY STRONG LIGHT, IT IS THERE BUT NOT VISIBLE UNDER NORMAL LIGHT. STOCK IS GOOD WITH A FEW MINOR SURFACE MARKS AND SCRATCHES HASN'T BEEN RUBBED OVER DOESN'T HAVE ANY CRACKS OR DAMAGE OTHER THAN THE AFOREMENTIONED MARKS. NICE CRISPLY RIBBED BUTT WITH ITS ORIGINAL STOCK HOLE COVER FITTED. SEEMS TO BE A GOOD SPRING PROBABLY HAD A NEW BREECH SEAL FITTED THE BARREL LOCK UP IS GOOD. OVERALL A NICE EXAMPLE.
HERE IS A 1930s QUOTE FROM BSA WHEN ADVERTISING THE BREAKDOWN MODEL TO PARENTS TO GET THEM TO BUY AN AIRGUN FOR THEIR BOY. GIRLS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THEIR TARGET MARKET
“SHOOTING WITH A BSA AIR RIFLE WILL DEVELOP KEEN EYE SIGHT, STRENGTHEN THE NERVES AND HELP YOU TO BECOME MANLY AND SELF RELIANT”
Stock No: 1394
Price: £225.00
Year: JAN 1975
Calibre: .22
WEBLEY
MARK 3
THIS LOVELY QUALITY AIR RIFLE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION RETAINING VIRTUALLY ALL ITS ORIGINAL FINISH. THE SCREW HEADS AND FITTINGS ARE PERFECT. THERE IS ONE SMALL AREA APPROX 1CM SQUARE OF WHERE THERE WAS PITTING ON THE BARREL. THIS HAS BEEN CLEANED OFF AND IS NOT THAT VISIBLE. ALSO SOME MARKS ON THE TAP SIDE PLATE COVER. A FEW VERY MINOR MARKS TO THE STOCK BUT MOSTLY ITS LOVELY ORIGINAL BLUE FINISH. THE RIFLE COCKS AND SHOOTS PERFECTLY, ORIGINAL OPEN SIGHTS FITTED OBVIOUSLY NOT HAD A LOT OF USE. THE DO NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE UNFORTUNATELY!
Stock No: 1388
Price: £1200.00
Year: c1890s
Calibre: 8mm
GIFFARD
8mm RIFLE
THIS HIGH QUALITY RIFLE IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION THE METALWORK RETAINS MOST OF ITS ORIGINAL FINISH, ALL COMPONENTS BEING CORRECT, LOVELY CRISP ENGRAVING AROUND THE ACTION BLOCK AND ON THE TRIGGER GUARD, ORIGINAL OPEN SIGHTS, LOVELY AMOUNT OF THE GOLD MANUFACTURERS MARKINGS REMAINING ON THE BARREL, THE CYLINDER IS SMOOTH SLIGHTLY WORN FINISH, SLIGHTLY THIN NOT REALLY WORN, THE STOCK IS NICE BUT IT HAS POSSIBLY BEEN SUN BLEACHED AT SOME POINT AS IT IS A BIT WASHED OUT. THE CHECKERING MAY HAVE BEEN RE CUT IT LOOKS NICE IS QUITE SHARP, ORIGINAL BALLOON PATTERN BUTT PLATE FITTED AGAIN WITH ENGRAVED SCREW HEADS AND THINGS. OVERALL A VERY NICE EXAMPLE, MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OF COLOUR ON THE STOCK WOULD REALLY MAKE THIS STAND OUT AS A SUPERB ONE.
Stock No: 1383
Price: £890.00
Year: c1860s
Calibre: 30 BORE AND 40 BORE
EDWARD LONDON
IN 19TH CENTURY LONDON EVERY GENTLEMAN OF STANDING WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIS DAILY PERAMBULATIONS WITH A WALKING CANE. THERE WAS THEREFORE A LARGE MARKET FOR NOVELTY CANES WITH VARIOUS DEVICES IN AND THIS IS AN AIRCANE. BASICALLY A PRECHARGED PNEUMATIC RIFLE BUILT IN THE FORM OF A WALKING STICK. THIS WAS MADE BY A COMPANY CALLED EDWARD LONDON OF 51 LONDON WALL, LONDON. IT IS IN AN OLD CASE WITH ORIGINAL PUMP WHICH IS MARKED WITH EDWARD LONDON’S NAME WHICH IS NICE TO SEE WITH A MORE RECENT KEY AND A FOOT PLATE FOR THE PUMP. A NICE COLLECTOR’S ITEM WHICH PROVES THAST PRECARGED PNEUMATICS HAVE BEEN AROUND A LOT LONGER THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK IN FACT THESE WERE FURTHER VARIATION ON SOMETHING THAT HAD ALREADY EXISTED FOR A COUPLE OF HUNDRED YEARS. WRITTEN ON THE PUMP PHOTOED ABOVE IS “E. LONDON GUN AND RIFLE MAKER 51 LONDON WALL LONDON”
Stock No:1408
Price: £55.00
Year: 1934
Calibre: .177 RIFLED
DIANA
MODEL 25
SOME TIME HAS BEEN SPENT GETTING THIS LITTLE RIFLE TO ITS CURRENT STATE A NEW REARSIGHT HAS BEEN FITTED, THE RIFLE HAS BEEN QUITE NICELY REPAINTED TO AN EVEN BLACK COLOUR, THE STOCK HAS BEEN REFINISHED AND REPAIRED, SOME NEW SCREWS HAVE BEEN FITTED. THE ONES AROUND THE BARREL AND AXIS ARE ORIGINAL AND GOOD, THE DIANA TRADEMARK WITH THE MARKINGS DIANA MOD 25 MADE IN GERMANY ARE NICE AND CLEAR ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER, THE SPRING AND PISTON AND BREECH SEAL ARE IN GOOD ORDER AND ALL FOR THE SUM OF ONLY 55 QUID! IT IS WHAT IT IS AND SOLD AS SEEN BUT IT IS 92 YEARS OLD.
Stock No: 1404
Price: £1100.00
Year: c1870s
Calibre: .38 RIFLED & .43 SMOOTHBORE
E.M. REILLY
BUTT STOCK AIR CANE
EDWARD MICHAEL REILLY WAS THE MOST FAMOUS MAKER OF AIRCANES ALTHOUGH WE THINK THE TOWNSEND COMPANY MADE MORE WHICH WERE SOLD UNDER ALL DIFFERENT MAKERS NAMES REILLY SOLD A LOT UNDER HIS OWN NAME AND IN FACT PUBLISHED A BOOKLET A TREATISE ON AIRCANES. THIS EXAMPLE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION RETAINING LOTS OF ITS ORIGINAL BLACK ENAMEL FINISH JUST WITH A FEW SMALL CHIPS BUT NO ACTUAL WEAR. ORIGINAL LEATHER COVERING TO THE BUTT STOCK. THIS WAS REFERRED TO BY REILLY AS THE IMPROVED MODEL AS THE BUTT STOCK GAVE A HIGHER AIR CAPACITY AND ALSO ALLOWED THE CANE TO BE SHOULDERED AND SHOT MORE LIKE A STANDARD RIFLE. OPEN SIGHTS ARE FITTED, IN ITS ORIGINAL CASE WITH THE LONG STROKE PUMP BUT THIS IS A LOT LONGER THAN MOST PUMPS SEEN WITH AIRCANES, ORIGINAL BALL MOULD A VALVE TOOL AND A LATER COCKING KEY. REILLY TRADE LABEL IN THE LID THE CASE IS NICE QUALITY WITH ALL RECESSED CATCHES AND LATCHES, NO KEY FOR THE LOCK WHICH HAS ITS LOCK PLATE MISSING. A NICE QUALITY EXAMPLE.
Stock No: 1405
Price: £980.00
Year: c1880
Calibre: 8mm AND 10mm
E M REILLY
AIRCANE
THIS AIRCANE WHICH WAS CALLED THE IMPROVED MODEL BY REILLY AS IT COULD BE LOADED USING A ROTARY LOADING TAP AT THE BREECH RATHER THAN HAVING TO MUZZLE LOAD THE BALL IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION IN ITS ORIGINAL CASE. IT RETAINS A GOOD AMOUNT OIF ITS ENAMEL FIN ISH THIS MAY HAVE BEEN REFINISHED SOME TIME AGO ITS DIFFICULT TO TELL BUT ITS MOSTLY SMOOTH AND BLACK JUST WITH A FEW VERY MINOR MARKS OF AGE. COMPLETE WITH A LONG PUMP IN VERY GOOD CONDITION RETAINING LOTS OF ITS ORIGINAL BROWN FINISH AND DECORATIVE AND PRACTICAL KNURLING AROUND THE FITTINGS. COMPLETE WITH A 3 BALL MOULD FOR THE 8mm BALLS AND A FOOT PLATE FOR THE PUMP. ALSO WITH A LATER COCKING KEY. A NICE COLLECTABLE ITEM. ALSO THERE IS A GAP FOR A SQUARE OIL BOTTLE WHICH COULD BE OBTAINED AND FITTED. NO KEY FOR THE LOCK BUT LOCK SEEMS TO BE COMPLETE AND WORKING ORDER. NICE RECESSED BRASS CARRY HANDLE IN THE LID. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Stock No: 1387
Price: £1400.00
Year: c1890s
Calibre: 8mm
GIFFARD
GIFFARD WAS A PIONEER OF CO2 RIFLES AND THIS IS A VERY EARLY PRODUCTION EXAMPLE OF HIS REMOVABLE CYLINDER VERSION THIS IS A LOVELY QUALITY RIFLE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ONE OF THE LOVELIEST GRAIN STOCKS WE HAVE SEEN ON A GUN, BEAUTIFUL TIGER STRIPING ALL THE WAY ALONG, A LOVELY DEPTH OF COLOUR, METALWORK ITSELF IS IN GOOD CONDITION RETAINING LOTS OF ITYS ORIGINAL BLUING, LOTS OF NICE SCROLLING ENGRAVING OVER THE ACTION AND BLOCK, ORIGINAL OPEN SIGHTS FITTED, THIS IS A VERY LOW SERIAL NUMBER. A LOVELY EXAMPLE.
WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE IN NOT QUITE AS NICE CONDITION AT £1200.00
STOCK NUMBER 1388
Stock No: 1218
Price: £95.00
Year: c1930s
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
MILBRO
FOREIGN
THIS RIFLE WAS IMPORTED BY MILBRO JUST BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND IS ALMOST CERTAINLY MADE BY DIANA AND THEN FINISHED OR MARKED UP BY MILBRO. MILBRO WERE ONE OF THE MAIN DIANA IMPORTERS UP UNTIL WAR TWO AND AFTER WAR NUMBER 2 THEY TOOK OVER DIANAS MACHINERY AND STARTED PRODUCING THEIR OWN DIANA BRAND AIRGUNS. THIS EXAMPLE IS IN FAIR CONDITION THE METALWORK BEING COVERED IN A BLACK PAINT THE REARSIGHT IS A NON ORIGINAL AS IS THE FRONT SIGHT BY THE LOOK OF IT. A NEW BREECH SEAL AND MAINSPRING HAVE RECENTLY BEEN FITTED AND THAT ASPECT OF IT SEEMS FINE. THE TRIGGER GUARD FIXING SCREWS ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY NON ORIGINAL REPLACEMENTS AND THE STOCK HAS HAD A THICK COAT OF VARNISH. IT MAY BE THAT SOME GOOD PAINT STRIPPER (IF YOU CAN FIND SOME) AND A BIT OF ELBOW GREASE WOULD IMPROVE THIS RIFLE IMMENSELY BUT THE BASIC FOUNDATIONS ARE OK. HAS A NICE CLEAN SMOOTH BORE BARREL.
