Covers German Flare Guns and Ammunition from 1889 to 2010, features 703 pages in full-colour with thousands of photographs.
The book will be very useful to collectors, buyers and sellers of German flare pistols and ammunition.
"Anyone interested in WWII German flare guns must have this book. Written by a man who has a passion for flare guns, this book explains in great detail all of the different WWII production flare pistols as well as the hundreds of different munitions used with flare pistols.
A fascinating reference book!"

The uncommon, the scarce & the rare. This book is a descriptive guide to the firearms and accessories produced for the US military, at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, during the period of 1873 to 1893. It contains detailed descriptions, serial number data, and photographs of EVERY rare variety of the .45-70 Springfield ‘trapdoor’, most never before available in this handy format.
Included are Sporting Rifles, the Metcalfe device, the M1875 Officer’s Rifles, the M1880 Triangular rod-bayonet rifle, the 1881 Long-Range rifles, the M1881 Marksman’s rifle, the M1882 Short rifles with 28” barrel, the M1884 Experimental (flat-latch) rod-bayonet rifles, the M1886 “XC” 24” barrel carbine, the .30 caliber ammunition test rifles of the 1890s, and more . . . In addition to the Allin-system ‘trapdoors’ noted above, individual and comprehensive chapters are devoted to the Model 1875 Lee-Springfield “vertical breech” rifle, all five versions of those martial-type Winchester-Hotchkiss repeating arms assembled by Springfield Armory, and, last but not least, the rare Chaffee-Reece magazine gun from the 1882 trials.

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Classic reference for Pistols & Revolvers.

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Being an Account of the Development, Design and Usage of English Sporting Rifles and Shotguns--from their Introduction during the Fifteenth Century until the Advent of the Metallic Cartridge in the Nineteenth Century--together with Notes on Muskets, Service Rifles, Blunderbusses and Other Arms.

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Commando Dagger: The Complete Illustrated History of the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife

The Fairbairn-Sykes dagger is recognised as the most important fighting knife in history. Special forces units during World War II had such faith in it that they kept it ready whenever silent killing was called for. Now this knife and its descendants are detailed in one comprehensive, heavily illustrated reference.

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The Modern Shotgun 3 Volumes: Complete set
Reprint of 1947
Volume 1 The Gun;
Volume 2 The Cartridge;
Volume 3 The Gun and the Cartridge

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The full story of the development of the big-game rifle from 1834-1943. Lists many early hunters choices for hunting big game around the world.

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The best source for information on the British gunmakers, including those in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

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English Gunmakers, the Birmingham And Provincial Gun Trade In The 18th And 19th Century.

An attempt to catalogue the many hundreds of individuals and firms that comprised the English gun trade during the flintlock and percussion eras. "The lists of gunmakers, gunsmiths, barrel makers, gun lock makers, stockers and gun warehouses are presented in three sections. The first deals with the Birmingham gun trade from its beginnings at the close of the seventeenth century to 1900 and, where possible, includes birth or death dates and relevant firearms patents; the second section lists provincial makers by the towns in which they worked, so that the size of the gun trade in any one town, its possible concentration in one area, and its rise and decline may easily be seen. The third section is an alphabetic listing of the provincial makers for ready reference, and contains the town and county of operation and the dates when the man is known to have been working. Appendices include a tabulation of the distribution of gunmakers by county and town and an extensive bibliography of published and unpublished books, periodicals and directories. As a basic reference source of information on English gunmakers, this book represents a very considerable step forward: collectors will find it of inestimable value in dating weapons, and students of English firearms will be enabled to form a clearer and more accurate picture of a very complex and highly skilled trade." .

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Edged-instrument fans get the most comprehensive history of Collins machetes and bowies ever published inside. Daniel E. Henry includes more than 1,200 blade instruments, and blade accessories are profiled.

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Shooting Related Advertising Since 1870. Mitchell
Limited to 100 copies only

Shooting Related Advertising Since 1870. Mitchell
Limited to 100 copies only

Hardcover

The first book devoted to powder tins & kegs. All cans & kegs shown in full color! Companies included are duPont, Hazard, Kings, American Powder, Mass. Powder, Laflin & Rand & Austin. Contents include: a price guide, a rarity scale, dimensions, company histories.

Author of the definitive A Collector's Guide to the Savage 99 Rifle and Its Predecessors, the Model 1895 and 1899, David Royal now presents the beautiful and elaborately engraved variants of the 99. Although widely perceived as utilitarian, Savage’s Models 1895, 1899, and 99 were often ornamented by gifted artisans. Nine of Savage’s first model, the 1895, were manufactured by Marlin and engraved by their in-house engraver, Conrad Ulrich. Photographs of six of these rifles are included, along with an extensive biography of the Ulrich family of engravers. The Model 1899s were engraved by Enoch Tue and featured a great variety of engraving and a long list of other enhancements. This is considered the heyday of engraved Savages, and all of Tue’s styles are covered here. The Model 99s were available with engraving sporadically until the end of Savage 99 production, and these later iterations are also discussed in detail.

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Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers. A study of the invention of the percussion gun by the Rev. Alexander Forsyth in the early 19th century. The greatest step forward since the invention of gunpowder and the most important development since firearms were first made. The Forsyth guns were not only revolutionary but among the finest made during the great era of English gun making. All known examples of Forsyth & Co.'s work are described in detail, 8 colour plates, 120 b&w illustrations.1969.

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Deutsche Kampfmesser (German combat knives).
German text only, profusely illustrated.

In this volume the author covers the smaller companies, the agents and the retailers that were such an important part of the gunpowder trade. Oriental and Hercules are, or were, major firms but most of this book is devoted to the names that are all but unknown, except to a few advanced collectors. Again the majority of the examples shown are from the Bacyk collection but another major source has been found in the Hagley Museum and Library. Hagley is connected with Dupont and many extremely rare cans, kegs and labels are from them. Samples from a few individual collectors are also included. Numerous illustrations.

The Pocket 49 was Sam Colt’s best seller – the best selling pistol in the world in the 1800s. Colt sold about 320,000 of these guns between 1848 and 1873. It is easy to speculate why it was a hot seller…it was cheap, light, offered in four different barrel lengths and was produced with and without rammers. It could be ordered with special sights, special grips, special finish, engraved, or all of these things if one could afford them.

This publication covers it all — Baby Dragoons, rammerless and with rammers; Wells Fargos, short frame and long frame; Pocket 49s with two line New York addresses, with two line Hartford addresses, with one line New York addresses; London Made Pocket 49s; Thuers, Conversions, Modifications, plus serial numbers, inspectors marks and stamping errors; engraving and inscriptions, cases, accoutrements, holsters & FAKES! Over 3,275 guns were surveyed with over half of these inspected and photographed by the authors.

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In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability of early guns. Foa succeeded in his efforts to create for the Paris Museum one of the finest collections of African animals and plants in the world. his account is full of hard, almost fatally earned bush knowledge.