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Fudd, for those with more biddable butlers (who would no doubt delegate the task to an under-keeper, second gardener or scullery maid with strict instructions not to smoke) Dixon made this combination mould and loading tool which I featured in a recent post.

Note it is nade for the early Boxer primers.

I doubt if the upper classes bothered with re-loading, other than the remittance man scraping a living in the Colonies.

At home they would send an order to their gunmaker who would put it on account and hope that the customer would settle at the end of the same year (some didn’t, ever - particularly if afflicted by slow horses and fast women).