Maintenance Repair & Conservation of Cannons,
Historic Artillery & Historic Metalwork,
Suppliers of Antique & Replica Artillery, Firearms and Armour
 

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Specific items sourced to customers requirements.

- Long Arms and Carbines
- Pistols
- Display Pistols
- Munitions - All Certified Explosives free
- Various
- Trade Guns

Military Books

 
Long arms and carbines.
 
 

Westley Richards 'Monkey Tail' carbine (1875) in good condition - much finish remains on the barrel, action tight, replacement cleaning rod. - £1400

 
 

Chassepot in good working condition - slight pitting to chamber complete with bayonet and scabbard - £795

 
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Martini rifle in 577/45 by the Field Rifle Company, high quality of manufacture with most of the original finish remaining. Complete with a sword bayonet from the single year of Wilkinson production. - £995

11mm. Mauser, bruised but very original stock, reasonable bore, complete with a new unused stock and brass hilted bayonet with brass mounted scabbard - £550.

 
 

Two band 'Navy' - from a country house sale nearly sixty years ago - not the best or the worst but now hard to come by. Having probably returned from Nigeria, it is travelling with a pitted but probably original issue bayonet - £650.

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Vetterli, a very good example of the 'System Vetterli', the first issued bolt action rifle. Slight pitting to butt plate and no cleaning rod - £525

Two band 'Volunteer' by Dean & Son - exceptionally well made - £950

Martini in 577/45, said to be returned in the past from South Africa, no bayonet lug and length between carbine and rifle - target style front wood. £500

 
 

The Swift Training Rifle - used to teach the Home Guard how to hold and point the Springfield Rifle. Adjustable sights, bolt action, shoulder safety, pierces a paper target. Complete in its armoury box. Generally good but some decay to box and one clasp missing . Ideal interactive for a living historian as not a firearm and very robust - £750

 

Baker rifle by H Nock of London, some bruising to stock, but clean sharp polygroove bore -£7500.00

 

 

India Pattern Naval Brown Bess Musket, no markings on lock plate, clean woodwork - £875.00 Sold

 

 

Greener Police shotgun, Mark III 12 bore, De-act with certificate - £375.00

 

 

Georgian Tower marked Brown Bess, very clean example - £5500.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Pistols
 

Tower Marked Georgian holster pistol, circa 1728, with eastern markings to stock and brasswork - £900.00 Sold

 
 

Cannon igniter, breech loading, multi stages in brass each stamped - based on a percussion 'bootleg' under-hammer design, the only one we have seen but very official - £2500

 
 

Unusual all metal transitional revolver - finish and finish and engraving on cylinder and butt, nipple shield except for loading port, pitting on barrel - £650 Sold

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Contract percussion pistol, no maker but proof marks visible - small repair to wood but otherwise sound - £550

 

London Navy Colt, in box with some tools, refinished barrel with tight crisp action - £2100.00

 

 
Display Pistols
 
Antique, non firing long arms, from £150.00 available for display purposes, please contact us for availability.




French Dragoon £250 Sold

 




  Queen Anne replica Boxlock turn-off very well made £250

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Georgian heavy dragoon, older copies, £250 each, or £450 for pair.

 
Munitions - All Certified Explosives Free
 
 



WWI German fragmentation trench bomb - £75

 




4.5" howitzer high explosive shell, with impact fuse and characteristic short case - £95 sold.

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3" of 20cwt solid shot
anti-tank or anti-submarine - £40

 
Various

 

Victorian marked Metford bayonet in excellent condition with scabbard - £200

 



Mortar sight 1945 - £75 Sold

 

Table top guns - Armstrongs - the four smaller guns sold, remaining gun available £45.00

 

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Trade Guns
     
 

Massive Barnett of London Trade Gun - Barnett stamps on lock and stock, London

   
 



proof, as well or poorly made as all trade guns - perhaps a little better. Very good condition but the stock probably varnished - no Tombstone mark, plain brass strap - £2,100.

   

 

   

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Newly published late 2007.

"Roaring Meg" Test firing a copy of Colonel Birch's civil war mortar.

This book and DVD, chart the history of this famous siege mortar, and using a full size working replica, demonstrate the impressive power of this weapon for the first time in 360 years. priced at £12.95 plus p+p at £2.00.

Discount available for orders in excess of 10 copies.

 

Navy and Army vol I 1896                                                                            £100

Navy and Army vol II 1896                                                                                          £100

Navy and Army vol III1896/7                                                                                       £100

Navy and Army vol V 1897/8                                                                                       £100

Navy and Army vol XII 1901                                                                                       £100

Navy and Army vol XIII 1901/2                                                                                   £100

 

Infantry Training vol 1 No.6B GPMG 1968                                                              £15

Infantry Training vol 1 No.6A GPMG 1966                                                              £15

Infantry Training vol 11 No.21 heavy/mortar 1968                                               £20

Infantry Training vol 1 No.9 3.5” rocket 1968                                        £15

Infantry Training vol 1 No.10 sniping 1951                                                             £20

Infantry Training vol 1 No.4 sub-machine 1955                                                    £15

Infantry Training vol 1 No.3B 7.62 self-loading 1965                                           £20

Infantry Training vol 1 No.2 Fieldcraft 1954                                                            £15

Infantry Training vol 1 No.12 fire-control 1949                                                     £15

Infantry Training vol 1 No.1 General instructions 1961                     £10

Infantry Training vol 1 No.7 Grenades 1964                                                            £15

Infantry Training vol 1 No.9 84mm AT 1967                                          £15

 

Schedule of Prices Works and Repair buildings WD 1925                               £20

 

The Woolwich Mess, Burne A.H. Aldershot 1954                                               £10

 

Front Line 1940-1 poor covers                                                                                     £5

 

RAMC Training 1935                                                                                                      £20

 

Atlas of Gas Poisoning 1938                                                                                        £15

 

Anti Gas Training 1938                                                                                                   £15

 

LDV Training Instruction 2                  1940(Training)                                            £5

LDV Training Instruction 4                  1940(Training)                                            £5

LDV Training Instruction 8                  1940(Tanks)                                                £5

 

Food…and poison gas, 1940                                                                                       £10

 

The Service Rifle…plus leaflets  - Gale and Polden                                              £40

 

How the RAF Works,  Narracott A.H.                                                                      £30

 

Allied signal manual 1918                                                                                               £25

 

Cavalry Training, 1912(1915)                                                                                        £50

 

Comrades in Arms, 1942 Three Talks to junior officers                     £5

 

The Eighth Army, HMSO 1943                                                                                    £20

 

Coastal Command, HMSO 1942                                                                                   £20

 

Pavement Design for Roads and Airfields, 1954                                                   £10

 

Ground Engineers Manual, Robinson A.C. 1939                                                  £20

 

Manual of Military Engineering, 1905                                                                      £75

 

Battle of the Narrow Seas, Scott P., Country Life 1945                      £60 

Field Service Pocket Book, approx 13 inserts – 1939-43                                    £110

 

Living in the Jungle                                                                                                         £15

 

Discharge Army Book 111 RADC/DCA NAT SERVICE                                   £5

 

Soldier’s release Class “A” Aldershot                                                                     £5

 

Certificate of Service B.108D                                                                                        £5

 

WD driving permit                                                                                                           £5

 

Monthly Settlements, Accounts, Royal Horse Guards, 1868                           £50

 

National Service, 1939                                                                                                     £15

 

Royal Marines,1944                                                                                                         £15

 

Catalogue Naval and Military Exhibition. 1889                                                     £25

 

Drill all arms 1951                                                                                             £20

 

Personal Protection against Gas, 1938                                                                      £20

 

Royal Warrant pay and promotion 1893                                                                  £25

 

Small Arms Manual, Barlow J.A. 1942(1953)                                         £30

 

Medical Treatment of Gas Casualties, 1937                                                             £20

 

The Duties of Air Raid Wardens1938                                                                       £15

 

Roof Over Britain, 1943                                                                                                   £20

 

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence 1946                                                                 £20

 

Forty Years of the Spitfire, RAS, 1976                                                                      £40

 

Manual of Map Reading, Photo Reading etc..1929                                              £50

 

British Military Uniforms, Carman W.Y., 1957                                       £20

 

   

 

   

    

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