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Steve,

I have a couple of other candidates for your list of pinfire makers.

My wife’s Uncle has a pin fire gun marked “S. Leech and Son” on the lock plates and “G.T. Bartram, Braintree “ on the top rib.

The action and Barrels bear a single set of 13 bore 1855 to 1868 Birmingham proof marks.

I had always assumed it was built as a pinfire by Leech (Leach/ Leetch - they seem to have been undecided on the spelling for a while) of Chelmsford but re-barrelled by Bartram.

Thinking about it , given the very short number of years that pinfires were in demand, it occurs to me that it may have been converted from a Leech muzzle loader by Bartram.

It has a one piece iron butt plate, as you would expect on a muzzle loader, and the pinfire barrels show signs of much use, but not a lot of cleaning.

Leech were certainly building guns in the muzzle loading era, and it seems Bartram were in business earlier than Nigel Brown’s book suggests.

I will try to post some more images,

Keep Well

Parabola

Last edited by Parabola; 08/21/21 01:37 PM. Reason: More images