Originally Posted By: Argo44



.........And Raimey...I stumbled on a site for Purdey which listed the order of tasks in manufacturing Purdey guns which changed during the decades(When I was researching at what point in a gun's manufacture were the barrels blued/browned). This site mentioned about 1876 that "now we have Belgian barrels...". I cannot find the darned thing again. I'll keep looking. But that was a pretty damning statement coming from a Purdey historian.


Many thanks Argo.

https://books.google.com/books?id=m3AHAQ...ker&f=false
1864 price comparison......

William Fullard of Clerkenwell is noted as being one of the last tube rollers in London?

https://books.google.com/books?id=LAsAAA...ker&f=false

But I contend that Birmingham mechanics were having components and or guns in the white sent straightaway from Liége to the Birmingham proof facility, an exception in the proof law. Of course there were pattern welded tubes in the rough sent to Birmingham which were finished & sold to London mechanics.


Cheers,

Raimey
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