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.
COMMISSION SALE
Price: £1450.00
Year: c1840-
Calibre: c.40”
EDWARD LONDON (OF LONDON)
BUTT RESERVOIR
THIS IS AVERY NICE QUALITY BUTT RESERVOIR AIR GUN MADE IN LONDON , THE CONDITION IS GOOD, THE METALWORK BEING BROWN WITH SOME LIGHT WEAR BUT NICE CLEAR ENGRAVING ON TOP OF THE BARREL WITH THE MAKERS NAME AND ADDRESS. LIGHT SCROLL ENGRAVING ON ALL SIDES OF THE ACTION BLOCK AND ON THE TAP COVER, LIGHT PITTING PATINA TO ACTION BLOCK GENERALLY BUT ITS ALL ORIGINAL NEVER HAVING BEEN RUBBED DOWN OR REBLUED. SAFETY BYPASS SWITCH ON THE SIDE WHICH MEANS YOU CAN RELEASE THE HAMMER WITHOUT RELEASING AIR FROM THE BUTT, NICE ORIGINAL LEATHER COVERED BUTT IN A BEAUTIFUL OLD PATINA ON IT COMPLETE WITH WHAT WE PRESUME IS THE ORIGINAL RAM ROD ALTHOUGH THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN PURELY DECORATIVE AND IN KEEPING WITH MUZZLE LOADING GUNS OF THE TIME. GENERALLY A NICE ORIGINAL EXAMPLE. THE WOODEN RAM ROD IS PROBABLY LATER.
Stock No: 1169
Price: £740.00
Year: 1929
Calibre: .177
HAENEL
MODEL V JUNIOR REPEATER
THIS IS A RARE AIR RIFLE, A JUNIOR SIZE UNDER LEVER FITTED WITH A DRUM MAGAZINE HOLDING 17 PELLETS SO DON'T HAVE TO LOAD ONE AT A TIME FOR EACH SHOT. THIS WAS PATENTED BY HUGO SCHMEISSER OF MACHINE GUN FAME WHO WAS A PROLIFIC DESIGNER OF ALL SORTS OF INVENTIONS AND WORKED MOSTLY FOR HAENEL. THIS EXAMPLE IS IN GOOD CONDITION, THE METALWORK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN RE BLUED OVER A LIGHTLY GRAINED SURFACE BUT ALL THE MARKINGS ARE NICE AND CLEAR, ALL THE SCREWS ARE GOOD, ALL THE PARTS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE. AND THE DRUM MAGAZINE ASSEMBLY IS AN ORIGINAL COMPONENT. FITTED WITH ORIGINAL OPEN SIGHTS. THE STOCK HAS BEEN REFINISHED , WHAT LOOKS LIKE A FAULT IN THE STOCK IS ACTUALLY A KNOT IN THE WOOD AND PART OF ITS ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION. Clearly they were not too fussy about knot FREE WOOD ON AIRGUNS AT THE TIME. WHEN THIS STOCK WAS PART OF A TREE A BRANCH WOULD HAVE BEEN GROWING OUT OF IT WHICH IS WHAT NATURE DOES WHICH IS WHY STOCKS ARE SO EXPENSIVE AS THEY ARE MADE NOW FROM SELECTED KNOT FREE WOOD! THIS IS A RARE ITEM IN GOOD CONDITION NOT SOMETHING THAT IS OFTEN SEEN.
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: 1184
Price: £580.00
Year: c1937
Calibre: .177
WEBLEY
SERVICE MARK 2
THIS MOST CLASSIC OF AIR RIFLES IS IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION COMPLETE AND WITH ALL ORIGINAL COMPONENTS, THE METALWORK IS A BROWN GRAINY LIGHTLY PITTED OVERALL SURFACE, EVENLY COVERED. MARKINGS ARE MOSTLY VISIBLE IF NOT THAT CRISP, STOCK HAS SURFACE MARKS AND KNOCKS AND LIGHT WEAR MARKS, OVERALL THE GUN IS A REASONABLE EXAMPLE NOT GREAT. IT IS PRESENTED IN A VERY NICELY MADE REPRODUCTION BOX WITH A REPRODUCTION BOX OF MILBRO CALEDONIAN PELLETS WITH SOME AGED BRITISH MADE PELLETS WITHIN. THE BARREL NUMBER MATCHES THE ACTION NUMBER AND THE SIGHTS ARE COMPLETE. THE RIFLE LOOKS REALLY NICE PRESENTED IN THIS AGED REPRO BOX.
Stock No: 1085
Price: £195.00
Year: c1933
Calibre: 177
BSA
BREAKDOWN PATTERN
THIS IS A GOOD SOUND HONEST ORIGINAL GUN. ALL COMPONENTS SEEM TO BE ORIGINAL PARTS AND ALL
FUNCTION AS THEY SHOULD DO. THE METALWORK HAS GONE AN EVEN BROWN COLOUR OVERALL WITH THE LIGHTEST OF PATINA A FEW MINOR MARKS AND NOCKS TO THE STOCK BUT THERE ARE NO CRACKS OR GAUGES. JUST A GOOD STRAIGHT FORWARD HONEST GUN. THESE ARE ACTUALLY LESS OFTEN SEEN THAN THE UNDERLEVERS WHICH WERE OBVIOUSLY MORE POPULAR AND SOLD BETTER FOR BSA AT THE TIME. THEY INTRODUCED THE BREAKDOWN TO COMPETE WITH DIANAS AND MILITTAS AT THE TIME. PHOTO ETCHING JUST ABOUT VISIBLE UNDER GOOD LIGHT BUT SOME LIGHT THINNING OF BLUING ON THE CYLINDER BUT TRHE METAL IS SMOOTH. ORIGINAL OPEN SIGHTS FITTED.
Stock No: 1174
Price: £280.00
Year: c1912
Calibre: .177
BSA
IMPROVED MODEL D
THIS IS A REALLY NICE BSA RIFLE WITH ONE MAJOR FAILING. THE RIFLE ITSELF IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION RETAINING MUCH ORIGINAL BLUING, SLIGHTLY GRAINY ON THE CYLINDER BUT IN AREAS LIKE UNDERNEATH THE COCKING LEVER IT IS NEAR NEW TYPE BLUING. ALL COMPONENTS ARE ORIGINAL, SCREW HEADS ARE VERY GOOD, SPRING SEEMS TO BE THE ORIGINAL BUT THERE IS STILL SOME LIFE IN IT. THE GUN MAY NOT HAVE BEEN TAKEN APART ALTHOUGH A VERY CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF SOME OF THE SCREW HEADS YOU CAN SEE THERE HAS BEEN A SCREW DRIVER BEEN IN THEM. ORIGINAL FRONT SIGHT FITTED WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN FILED DOWN TO GIVE A V SHAPE AND A FRONT SIGHT PROTECTOR PROBABLY OF THE CORRECT SAME PERIOD HAS BEEN FITTED. MARKINGS FULLY LEGIBLE ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER, NICE CLEAR SERIAL NUMBER, STOCK IS VERY GOOD NOT BEEN RUBBED DOWN, NICE SHARP CHECKERING, VERY CLEAR BSA TRADE MARK, NO CRACKS OR DEFECTS APART FROM THIS ONE. IT HAS AT SOME POINT PRESUMABLY AT TIME OF PRODUCTION, BEEN FACTORY FITTED WITH A BSA NUMBER 21 PEEP SIGHT. HOWEVER THIS PEEP SIGHT IS NOW MISSING JUST LEAVING THE GAP WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND THE 4 FIXING SCREWS. THE MIDDLE REAR SIGHT HAS BEEN FITTED WITH A BLANKING PLATE WHICH WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE ON SOME OF THESE RIFLES WHEN THEY HAVE HAD PEEP SIGHTS. IF WE HAD A PEEP SIGHT TO FIT THIS THIS WOULD BE A SUPERB EXAMPLE AND A NICE PRIME PIECE IN ANYONE’S COLLECTION. HOWEVER WITHOUT THE PEEP SIGHT IN CANNOT REALLY BE SHOT BUT WE SELL THESE AS COLLECTOR/S ITEMS ANYWAY, IF SOMEONE HAS A PEEP SIGHT LET US KNOW, OR IF YOU HAVE A PEEP SIGHT SITTING IN A DRAWER THIS IS THE RIFLE YOU MIGHT WANT TO FIT IT TO. AS IT IS EXTREMELY GOOD ORIGINAL AND CLEAN CONDITION JUST WITH A LITTLE OVERALL BROWNING AND LOSS OF SHINE TO MOST OF THE METALWORK. A LOVELY EXAMPLE SHAME ABOUT THE PEEP SIGHT.
Stock No: 1013
Price: £695.00
Year: c1906
Calibre: .177 RIFLED
KYNOCH SWIFT
THIS IS A RARE ENGLISH MADE AIR RIFLE TRYING TO COMPETE WITH BSA IN ABOUT 1906 IT WAS PATENTED AS A STRONG WELL MADE SOLID BREAK BARREL RIFLE WITH A VERY STRONG BARREL RELEASE MECHANISM. THIS EXAMPLE IS VERY INTERESTING IN THAT IT HAS THE ANTI BEAR TRAP MECHANISM WHICH WAS INCLUDED IN THE ORIGINAL PATENT BUT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN ON ANOTHER EXAMPLE. WE HAVE LOOKED MOST CAREFULLY AT THIS FITTING AND WE ARE CERTAIN IT IS ORIGINAL AS OTHERWISE WHO EVER FITTED IT MUST HAVE HAD INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PATENT AND THEN THE SKILL TO FIT IT PERIOD AND THEN NOT EVEN MENTION IT WHEN THEY WERE SELLING IT. SO ALL IN ALL WE ARE CERTAIN IT IS THE ORIGINAL FITTING. THE RIFLE ITSELF IS IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION LIGHTLY PITTED OVERALL THE METALWORK HAVING GONE FROM BLACK TO A GREY COLOUR, THE MARKINGS ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER ARE VISIBLE READING KYNOCK LTD PATENT AND A 2 FIGURE SERIAL NUMBER ON THE TRIGGER BLOCK. THE STOCK HAS SURFACE MARKS AND SCRATCHES BUT THE STAMPINGS ON BOTH SIDES IE KYNOCH LTD BIRMINGHAM PATENT IN A ROUNDALL ON THE LEFT AND A PICTURE OF A FLYING SWIFT AND TRADEMARK ON THE RIGHT. A VERY NICE EXAMPLE OF EARLY ENGLISH MADE AIR RIFLES WITH THE ORIGINAL SAFETY SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE BASICALLY AN ANTI BEAR TRAP ON AN AIR RIFLE MADE IN 1906. AND IT WORKS IN PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WAY AS THE CURRENT WEIHRAUCH HW77. A NICE COLLECTOR’S ITEM.
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.
Stock No: 1183
Price: £290.00
Year: c1905
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
LANES
MUSKETEER
THIS IS AN EARLY ENGLISH MADE AIR RIFLE MADE BY LANES IN LONDON, ACTUALLY SLIGHTLY PREDATES THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BSA AIR RIFLE BUT ONCE THE BSA AIR RIFLE CAME ALONG IT SAW OFF ALL ITS COMPETITORS. THIS EXAMPLE IDS IN FAIR CONDITION THE METALWORK BEING AN EVEN GREY TO BROWN TYPE FINISH, GRAINY OVERALL HOWEVER THE MARKINGS ARE CLEAR MUSKETEER ON TOP OF THE BARREL AND LANE BROS. LONDON BRITISH MADE ON THE TOP BARREL FLAT OF THE BREECH BLOCK. THE FITTINGS WOULD ALL SEEM TO BE ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD ORDER. REASONABLY CLEAN SMOOTH BORE BARREL AND THE BARREL CATCH LOCKS BARREL UP QUITE NICELY. STOCK HAS NUMEROUS SURFACE MARKS SCRATCHES AND SIGNS OF TIME PASSING. AS WELL AS SOME OIL STAINS. GUN HAS OBVIOUSLY HAD A FAIR BIT OF USE. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT IT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE OF THESE IN REALLY FINE CONDITION ALTHOUGH THEY MAY EXIST. A NICE EARLY ENGLISH COLLECTABLE AIR GUN.
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IMPROVED BRITANNIA TOOL
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.
Stock No: 1230
Price: £595.00
Year: c1907
Calibre: .177 RIFLED
BRITANNIA
ANGLO SURE SHOT MARK 1
THIS IS A BASICALLY SOUND AND COMPLETE GUN NOT FANTASTIC CONDITION THE METALWORK IS A LITTLE LIGHTLY PITTED AND GRAINY OVERALL COMMENSURATE WITH ITS AGE. THE MARKINGS ARE ALL NICE AND CLEAR ALSO IS MARKED IS “MADE ONLY FOR R RAMSBOTTOM OF MANCHESTER” AND “ANGLO SURE SHOT MARK1 “ ON THE BREECH BLOCK. POSSIBLY THE ORIGINAL REAR SIGHT WE ARE NOT SURE, ORIGINAL FRONT SIGHT, ALL THE OTHER COMPONENTS WOULD SEEM TO BE CORRECT, NICE AND TIGHT AT THE BREECH, THESE ARE ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD QUALITY GUN THIS EXAMPLE HAS A NICE CLEAN RIFLED BARREL WITH A GOOD BARREL LOCK UP AND SEEMS TO BE QUITE A GOOD MAINSPRING IN IT. STOCK HAS SURFACE MARKS SCRATCHES AND WEAR OF AGE BUT HAS NOT BEEN REFINISHED AND HAS QUITE A NICE SHINE TO IT THROUGH BEING POLISHED HANDLED AND USED THROUGH THE YEARS. A NICE COLLECTABLE RIFLE THESE ARE..
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
Stock number 1223
£110.00
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Stock No: 1215
Price: £75.00
Year: 1926
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
DIANA
MODEL 20
THIS IS A EXAMPLE OF DIANA 20 WITH THE REAR SIGHT ON TOP OF THE TRIGGER BLOCK. RETAINS SOME ORIGINAL NICKEL FINISH MOSTLY TO THE BARREL THE PISTOL GRIP AREA SEEMS TO HAVE A GREY PAINT FINISH BUT THE DIANA HUNTRESS TRADE MARK THE MADE IN GERMANY ARE CLEARLY VISIBLE ON TOP OF THE TRIGGER BLOCK. ONE PREVIOUS OWNER WAS N. J. H. DAVIDSON WHO SOUGHT FIT TO STAMP HIS NAME IN TO THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE STOCK. IF HE WAS THE ORIGINAL OWNER WE THINK HE WOULD HAVE PASSED ON BY NOW.
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: 0969
Price: £360.00
Year: c1937
Calibre: 22
WEBLEY
SERVICE RIFLE SERIES 3
WE BELIEVE THIS AIR RIFLE HAS POTENTIAL AS A PROJECT FOR SOMEONE TO DO UP AND GET WORKING OK AGAIN OR IT COULD BE DISMANTLED FOR SPARES WHICH WOULD BE A SHAME. THE REARSIGHT IS MISSING, THE PEEPSIGHT AT THE BACK ONLY HAS THE FRAME THE WINDAGE AND ELEVATION BLOCK IS MISSING. THE INTERCEPTOR SEER IS MISSING, A NEW ONE THAT NEEDS FINISHING IS SUPPLIED WITH THE RIFLE. AS IT IS WHEN FITTED IT DOES HOLD THE PISTON BACK BUT WILL NOT RELEASE. THE RIFLE FAILS TO COCK, THE STOCK IS OK ITS PROBABLY HAD A COAT OF VARNISH BUT THERE ARE NO MAJOR DEFECTS IT IS HOWEVER LOOSE ON THE ACTION. THE SCREW HEADS SEEM OK, THE AXIS PIN WOULD APPEAR TO BE A RECENT REPLACEMENT, THE BARREL NUMBER DOES NOT MATCH THE ACTION OF THE RIFLE. ALL MARKINGS ARE CLEAR THE METAL WORK IS A BROWN GREY WORN SLIGHTLY PITTED SURFACE OVERALL.
Stock No: 1221
Price: £90.00
Year: c1910-
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
MILLITA
BOY’S MODEL
THIS IS ONE OF THE SMALL MODEL MILLITAS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A BOY’S MILLITA. IT IS IN REASONABLE CONDITION THE METALWORK BEING AN OVERALL BROWN TO GREY REASONABLY SMOOTH FINISH, NO MARKINGS ON THE GUN OTHER THAN THE SERIAL NUMBER, THE SPRING IS VERY WEAK, TIRED OUT AND THE TRIGGER GUARD IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A REPLACEMENT PART, WELL WE C AN SEE IT IS THAT SOMEONE HAS CAREFULLY MADE AND FITTED. STRAIGHT HAND STOCK WITH A LIGHT VARNISH OVER SOME SCUFFS AND MARKS. METAL BUTT PLATE. ORIGINAL OPEN SIGHTS FITTED. PRESUMABLY THIS GUN HAS GIVEN SOMEONE A LOT OF ENJOYMENT OVER THE YEARS AND HAS SURVIVED QUITE WELL DESPITE 2 WORLD WARS!
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-
Stock No: 1255
Price: £155.00
Year: 1909
Calibre: .177
BSA
IMP D LIGHT MODEL
THIS OLD RIFLE HAS CLEARLY HAD QUITE A HARD LIFE AND SEEN SOME SERIOUS USE. THE METALWORK IS A BROWN EVENLY PITTED FINISH ALL OVER BUT THE MARKINGS ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER ARE ALL STILL VISIBLE. THE STOCK HAS BEEN RUBBED DOWN AND VARNISHED OVER SUCH THAT THE CHECKERING IS VIRTUALLY ALL GONE YOU CAN JUST SEE TRACES OF WHERE IT ONCE WAS. THE WORD TRADE MARK IS VISIBLE ON THE STOCK BUT NO BSA PYLARM MARK. ALSO HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO REPAIRS AROUND THE NECK WHERE IT MEETS THE TRIGGER BLOCK. THE TRIGGER BLOCK ITSELF WOULD HAVE HAS A NUMBER 12 PEEP SIGHT FITTED TO IT AT THE FACTORY HOWEVER THE SIGHT HAS BEEN REMOVED JUST LEAVING THE SPRING LEAF PART OF IT ATTACHED TO THE GUN. THE SIGHTS ARE NON ORIGINAL THE REARSIGHT BEING A BSA CADET TYPE OR CERTAINLY A LATER BSA STANDARD TYPE AND THE FRONT SIGHTS NON ORIGINAL BUT THE TWO DO WORK TOGETHER VERY WELL. THE UNDERLEVER RETAINING CATCH IS ALSO WRONG AND A COUPLE OF THE SCREWS ARE ALSO WRONG BUT THE GUN DOES ACTUALLY COME TOGETHER TPO FORM A COMPLETE ITEM BUT NEEDS A BIT OF WORK TO MAKE IT NICE. THIS IS A VERY EARLY LIGHT OR LADIES MODEL LINCOLN JEFFRIES REFERRED TO IT AS THE LADIES BUT BSA CALLED IT THE LIGHT MODEL THEREBY NOT LOSING SALES TO THE MALES PRESUMABLY. SHAME ABOUT THE MISSING PEEP OTHERWISE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH BETTER ITEM BUT MAYBE SOMETHING COULD BE MADE TO FIT.
Stock No:1253
Price: £75.00
Year: c1970
Calibre: .177
WEBLEY
JAGUAR
THIS NICE LITTLE LIGHT WEIGHTY JUNIOR RIFLE IS IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION SOME LIGHT PITTING AND PATINA TO THE ACTION AND BARREL. NON ORIGINAL REARSIGHT FITTED BUT HAS ITS ORIGINAL FRONT SIGHT, STOCK ALSIO SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN VARNISHED. COCKS AND SHOOTS AT ABOUT 2 FOOT POUNDS SO NOT PARTICULARLY POWERFUL BUT THEY NEVER WERE, NICE AND Easy TO COCK AND WOULD SUIT A YOUNGSTER FOR SUPERVISED SHOOTING AT SHORT RANGE.
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)
COMMISSION SALE (BD)
Price: £185.00
Year: 1860-
Calibre: .43”
AIRCANE
THIS OLD AIRCANE HAS A FAIR PERCENTAGE OF ITS ORIGINAL BLACK JAPANNED FINISH AND WHAT WOULD APPEAR TO BE IT ORIGINAL SCREW OFF FERRULE/RAMROD ACCOMPANIED BY A MORE MODERN KEY WHICH IS A BIT ROUNDED OFF AND FAILS TO COCK THE TRIGGER MECHANISM WHICH SEEMS A BIT SEIZED ANYWAY SO AS PER WITH ALL ANTIQUE AIRGUNS THIS IS OFFERED AS AN ORNAMENT OR CURIOSITY OR FOR SPARES ONLY. NO MAKER’S NAME.
Stock No: 1273
Price: £940.00
Year: c1885
Calibre: .38”
ANTIQUE AIRCANE
E. HARRISON OF LONDON
THIS IS A REALLY NICE OLD ANTIQUE AIRCANE SET. LOVELY BROWN JAPANNED FINISH AS OPPOSED TO NORMAL BLACK THIS IS CLEARLY MARKED ON THE FACE OF THE CYLINDER SECTION E HARRISON AND COMPANY OF LONDON E HARRISON WAS A SUBSIDIARY OF COGSWELL AND HARRISON WHICH THEY USED TO PUT ON NON FIREARM AND SPORTING GOODS WHICH THEY DID NOT WANT TO APPLY THE COGSWELL AND HARRISON NAME TO. GOOD CONDITION, RETAINING LOTS OF ITS ORIGINAL FINISH TO THE AIRCANE WITH A FEW MINOR SCRATCHES AND KNOCKS AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED FROM SOMETHING 140 YEARS OLD. COMPLETE WITH PUMP WHICH AGAIN IS ENGRAVED WITH ‘E.HARRISON AND COMPANY 226 STRAND ;LONDON ‘ WHICH IS VERY NICE TO SEE, A FOOT PLATE WHICH IS NUMBERED AND WITH A BRASS BALL MOULD AND WHAT WE BELIEVE TO BE AN OLD KEY . IN WHAT WE ASSUME IS EITHER A MORE RECENT BOX OR A BOX THATS BEEN REFINISHED, FITS PERFECTLY MADE FOR THIS AIRCANE KIT. OVERALL A VERY NICE ANTIQUE PRECHARGED AIRGUN. WITH A VERY DEEP RIFLED BARREL .
Stock No: 1250
Price: £88.00
Year: c1920s
Calibre: ,177 RIFLED
HAENEL
MODEL 8 (MODEL VIII)
VERY LOW POWERED NEEDS A NEW SPRING. METALWORK BLACK TO BROWN GRAINY, NON ORIGINAL REAR SIGHT, STOCK HEAVILY VARNISHED OVER SURFACE MARKS BUT OTHERWISE COMPLETE. LITTLE BIT LOOSE AT THE BARREL JOINT. NOT A MODEL OF AIR RIFLE THAT WE HAVE EVER HAD A LOT OF. MODEL NAME CLEARLY ON TOP OF THE CYLINDER.
Stock No: 1274
Price: £85.00
Year: c1920s
Calibre: .177 SMOOTHBORE
MILLITA
AIRGUN
A BOYS MILITA IS THE SMALLEST THEY MADE, WE ARE NOT BEING SEXIST BECAUSE BACK IN THE DAY IT COULD BE USED BY GIRLS AS WELL. FAIR CONDITION MOST ORIGINAL NICKEL FINISH BARREL HAS A GRAINY BROWN/RUSTED FINISH. BIT OF LOOSENESS IN BARREL, NEW MAINSPRING FITTED, TRIGGER GUARD SCREWS ARE NOT QUITE THE RIGHT ONES.
Stock No: 1235
Price: £465.00
Year: c1860
Calibre: c.40” (10MM)
ANTIQUE AIRCANE
THIS ANTIQUE AIRCANE IS ACCOMPANIED BY ITS ORIGINAL OLD PUMP AND A KEY FOR THE LOCK MECHANISM, IT IS HOUSED IN A VERY OLD GUN CASE WITH A COGSWELL AND HARRISON LTD LABEL IN THE LID. THESE WERE BASICALLY A PRECHARGED AIRGUN WHERE YOU PUMP UP THE CYLINDER AT THE BACK, TURN A KEY A TRIGGER BUTTON POPS OUT AND YOU USE THAT BUTTON TO FIRE IT HAVING PRE LOADED IT USING THE REMOVABLE RAM ROD/FERULE. A VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN’S WALKING CANE WITH A SURPRISE FOR ANY VAGABOND THAT ATTEMPTED TO DISRUPT HIS DAILY PERAMBULATIONS. . GENERAL WEAR AND MARKS/KNOCKS TO THE JAPANNED FINISH THIS ITEM SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED FOR SOME TIME.
Stock No: 1249
Price: £100.00
Year: c1922
Calibre: 177
BSA
LIGHT MODEL
FOR SOME THIS WOULD MAKE AN INTERESTING PROJECT GUN SOMETHING TO GET THEIR TEETH IN TO! OTHERS MIGHT WANT TO LEAVE AS IS. THE METALWORK IS AN OVERALL BROWN GRAINY FINISH WITH SOME AREAS SMOOTHER THAN OTHERS, THE REARSIGHT IS A POORLY MADE REPLACEMENT, THE FRONT SIGHT IS THE ORIGINAL, COMPLETE SURPRISINGLY, AND IN GOOD ORDER. THE UNDERLEVER CATCH HAS CLEARLY BEEN MADE OUT OF A BOLT BUT CLEARLY DOES THE JOB, THE REST OF THE COMPONENTS WOULD SEEM TO BE ORIGINAL ASIDE FROM 1 OR 2 SCREWS, PARTICULARLY ONE IN THE TAP PLATE IS DEFINITELY THE WRONG ONE. STOCK HAS A CRACK THROUGH THE PISTOL GRIP AND HAS BEEN VARNISHED QUITE HEAVILY SO THAT WOULD BE THE M AIN THING WE WOULD ATTEND TO IF IT WAS OUR PROJECT. SEEMS TO BE THE ORIGINAL MAINSPRING FITTED IE A SORT OF RECTANGULAR FLAT SECTION ON E. TAP MECHANISM WORKS OK AND THE PISTON WOULD SEEM TO BE IN GOOD ORDER AS WELL. TRIGGER MECHANISM ALSO FUNCTIONS FINE, SO A BIT TO DO ON IT IF THAT IS YOUR INTEREST.