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Trying to locate a Trade Label for Calderwood, 14 North Earl Street Dublin.



So far i have found this image from the autumn 2012 edition of Irish country sports and country life however the image is of poor quality. I am really hoping that someone has or knows of a better quality image. OR someone has an original that they can photograph or photocopy for me.

Sorry, IGC has no image for Calderwood:

Name Thomas Calderwood
Other Names Calderwood & Son; Thomas Calderwood Jnr
Address1 22 Little Mary Street
Address2 6 White Lane, Dorset Street
Address3 14 North Earl Street
Address4 21 Duke Street
Address5 22 Duke Street
Address6 61 Upper Sackville Street
Address7 24 Upper Sackville Street
City/Town Dublin
Country Ireland
Trade Gunmaker
Other Address
Dates 1810-1896
Notes

Thomas Calderwood was first recorded in 1810 at 22 Little Mary Street, Dublin, he moved in 1813 to 6 White Lane, Dorset Street. It is likely that his father was a gunmaker and he may have inherited the business. In 1815 he made his son, James, a partner in the business and moved to 14 North Earl Street.

By 1841 Thomas had retired or died and either James or Thomas Jnr (presumably another son) had taken over the firm; it moved it to 21 Duke Street. In 1845 the firm moved to 22 Duke Street, and in 1859 to 61 Upper Sackville Street. In 1876 the firm moved to 24 Upper Sackville Street where they remained until closing in 1896.

The Calderwoods of Pennsylvania were probably related.

Seems Calderwood built up 'Vampire Slaying Kits'!

Tim

There is (or was) some punter on ebay uk selling lots of repro labels. Don't know if he listed Calderwood but it might be worth a look. A decent repro printed on quality thick vellum type paper looks not too bad.

I make up my own repro labels for myself and other collectors from time to time so that's not an issue. I need a reasonable quality image to re create from or restore to make a repro.

In any case i have been really trying to seek a trade label and a guy from these forums in Australia MAY have one, so he has said he will help so far as he can IF he can find one.

On top of that i found an article on Calderwood in Irish Country Sports and Country Life who i emailed. They promptly put me in contact with David Stroud proprietor of "ram rod antiques" who promptly provided me with all the images he has of calderwood labels

As such i have an image of three known labels for calderwood.

A trade label for James Calderwood, 22 Duke street, which is a good image from which i may be able to make a restored image.

A Trade label for 14 north earl street as shown in my original post which is printed in blue ink. The image is fairly poor

A trade label similar to the one in my original post which is a black and white image taken from a auction catalogue, the image is very poor. The difference between this one and the one above is that this one is very much a landscape image as apposed to the original one in portrait.

As the gun is a double percussion gun with a round flintlock - esk trigger guard it would not surprise me if the gun is early enough to fit with the 22 duke street address. So i will probably restore/ recreate that image if possible and go with that unless the forum member i mentioned earlier comes up with anything of interest.

Will share the images if there is interest.

James.