Just because it is 12-12-2012 British Military Pistol Collection
left UEIC and EIG,center Navy and Coast Guard,right Cavalry and Yeomanry
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A magnificent collection! I always enjoy seeing the pistols that you post & its nice to see all those you have in the one layout. There cannot be many that you do not have which ones do you still...
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Thanks for the thought. Fortunatly (or maybe unfortunatly there are as you remarked the 4" Navy/Coast Guard/Customs flintlock, and the Irish Constabulary as well as Dublin Castle types,10" light...
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Have you seen the pistol collection at Culzean Castle in Scotland? I visited it several years ago, their armoury had several hundreds of ex issue British military flintlock pistols arrayed in racks...
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Hi Adrian,Never been to Scotland but have seen the collections at the Tower and at Windsor.Brooker does show one ordnance marked flintlock with what appears to be a 6" blunderbuss barrel (no specific...
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Oh, I thought you lived in the UK somewhere & what with one end of the country only a stones throw from the other end ...... assumed Scotland would be a regular weekend away..... ;-) Googling...
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Hi Adrian,Did as you suggested, visited the Calzean Castle site, then sent my wife this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/14444685@N03/4417208330/in/set-72157623454294075/ and said that I now had a...
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I envy you your pistol collection, & whilst my wife is very tolerant of my hobbies I am still chipping away to get her around to the idea of an extension so I can have a larger collection...
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Better late than never. Trip to Scotland booked with a day trip to Culzean Castle scheduled for this Summer. Any antique arms/mlitaria shops in Edinburgh or Glasgow ??????
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Vincent - If you have any interest in Sporting Rifles a visit to John Dickson & Sons, now Dickson and Macnaughton, I think, at 21 Frederick Street, Edinburgh should be worth a visitI have not been...
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Vincent, congratulations on the trip! When will you be going?
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Hi Michael, I never post specific away dates in online media,might alert the bad guys. Will if permitted take some photos to share. See you at Sturbridge in June perhaps. Saw your interest in SF I...
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Golden Age! Those were the days. I grew up more with the New Wave writers of the '70's like Zelazny. Have a good trip. It seems like a bunch of us are going over, but all at different times. We should...
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