The Vintage Cup, 12th World Side-By-Side Championship and Exhibition, 2008,
Maryland, USA

'An extravaganza of fabulous guns and shooting'
Heritage Guns proprietor Toby Barclay with good friends Livia Williams and Peter Harris who valiantly manned the stand while besieged by enthusiastic customers!

This extraordinarily beautiful 1877 James Purdey Bar-in-Wood 16b Hammergun caused much excitement on our stand but we obviously had priced it too low: nobody bought it, they must have thought they were dreaming! Check it out!
Peter Harris shares one of his famous stories with another good friend, Dan Morgan, a highly skilled gun restorer, specializing in browning and stock finishing.
Between torrential rain showers, Peter and Livia pose at the entrance of the Vintage Cup venue, Pintail Point in Maryland. It really was a bit damp! Note the puddles, they were a permanent fixture for most of the weekend. Even the shooting competitions were suspended at one point!
On the Heritage Guns stand, Peter and Livia with Chris Gilgun, the Vintagers' Secretary, and Karen Gendron who Toby Barclay describes as 'the most completely cheerful person I have ever had the pleasure to meet'! As one can deduce from her attire, it was not exactly hot and dry!
Our biggest surprise of the show: we sold not one 16g gun! Including the Purdey we had 5 real lovelies on display and even though we almost had to get customers to form an orderly queue to view them at one point, not one found a new home. Illustrated above is a 16g W Richards of Liverpool hammergun, TIG sleeved to 30", 2 3/4", 1/4 & 1/2 chokes with lovely engraving. How could they resist! Full details have now been uploaded so check it out!
We came across this lonely H&H leather & brass case recently and after a reline we felt it just had to join our Holland & Holland Needham Ejector. We managed to save the label, albeit slightly damaged and have equipped the case with a pair of nice old chrome snapcaps, a new Ebony & Brass cleaning rod and contemporary style pewter oil bottle. Take a look!
Good luck has to happen to someone and obviously someone very significant was looking down on us when we left a halfhearted bid on a pile of externally rather ordinary gun cases at the same auction house where we had acquired a Westley Richards BiW hammergun no. 5527 some 9 months earlier. Low and behold, there was the case for the WR, complete with label and relineable partitions. The rest is history so take a look!

 

Visit our Hand Made Tools and Accessories page for details of our unique Damascus Bodied Snapcaps, Oil Bottles and Striker Pots. You will also find details of our bespoke Engraving Service for these fabulous accessories.

 

Heritage Guns is delighted to offer a new service to our customers:
Independent Auction Condition Reports.
For a modest fee, we will examine items offered at any of the main London auctions and provide an e-mail report of its external condition. Furthermore, if you wish to proceed with a bid, we will arrange for it to be made on your behalf.
If you want further information on the service, please contact us.

 

Heritage Guns is an organization with a well-defined ethos.

We are passionate about guns made around the turn of the 19th Century and especially so about those by lesser known gunmakers both in London and the provinces.
Our aim is to produce an historic, aesthetically delightful gun suitable for use in the modern sporting landscape.
Every Heritage Gun can be ordered with a Heritage Companion, a unique leather bound manual which gives a fascinating insight into the history of the gun's maker, the gun itself and a mass of patent and other technical information.

If required, all guns can be supplied in a beautifully restored case, fitted with hand crafted tools.

 
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