By a happy coincidence Holts current sealed bids sale is offering (Lot 2623) a copy of the Darrow's Wholesale catalogue I pictured earlier together with a copy of a G. S. Holloway catalogue.

Holloways were gunmakers for the trade (certainly including Edwinson Green), guns of their make usually being distinguishable by a H prefix serial number under the barrels.

The Darlow catalogue (orange edges) shows guns listed as 717 and 719.


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Holloways catalogue (grey edges) shows seemingly identical guns with the same reference numbers.
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It seems fairly clear that Darlow were offering to the trade guns that they were sourcing from Holloways (as well as foreign makers).

Last edited by Parabola; 03/28/26 05:50 AM.