Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: Brookes and Son

From Graces Guide

246. BROOKES and SON, 28 Russell St., Birmingham — Makers.

Fowling-piece, double barrel, silver steel twisted.

Fowling-piece, with single barrel.

Rifle gun, for shooting long distances, with telescope.

Four-barrel revolving gun (used in India.)

Walking-stick gun, to pack in a portmanteau.

Military guns — British, French, and Piedmontese muskets.

South American (Buenos Ayres) and Spanish carbines for cavalry.

African trading guns used in barter, chiefly for palm oil, etc.

Dane guns, black and red stocks, brass and iron mounted.

Buccaneer red stocks, heavy and light mountings.

Carolina gun, similarly furnished.

Indian pistols, silver handles, rifled barrels.

Six-barrel revolving pistol.

Safety water-tight nipples.


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