A collection of vintage and modern airguns.
Here are two rare boxes of “Improved” Bull Dog pellets. Aren’t they amazing? You don’t see airgun products like this anymore with such patriotism emblazoned with a British bulldog and the Union Jack.
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This is the plastic gripped Limit air pistol. If you’ve read my previous article on the plastic gripped “deluxe” Briton, you’ll have realised that this one appears to be identical. You’re not wrong!
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Following on from a previous article about Frank Clarke’s “Briton” (second model) air pistol, this one is almost identical except it has white plastic grip inserts (although they appear yellow in the photographs, trust me, they are white) rather than an all pressed steel body.
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This is Franke Clarke’s second model of “The Briton” that he produced. They were manufactured between 1931 and 1939 although advertisements were still seen up to 1956. Thus production may have resumed after the end of the second world war. If not, there must have been a lot of pre-war stock still available. It’s hard to think that would be the case if they were recycling steel for the war effort. [1]
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A new addition for the collection – The Whittall by Frank Clarke circa 1918. Possibly named after Whittall Street, Birmingham, England, where Frank Clarke and so many other gun manufacturers were situated. Smoothbore brass barrel “Dolla” popout style air pistol. The pin is not original and appears to be made from a nail, a piece of rubber and some type of knurled sleeve. I will commission a replica pin, true to the original, to be manufactured in due course.
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