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[John Blanch and Son, London gunmakers.] Handbill advertisement [by the Banbury printers Cheney & Sons] for 'John Blanch & Son's Hammerless Ejector Gun (Patent)', with engraved illustration by W. C. Bradley.

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[John Blanch & Son, Gunmakers, 29, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C.; Cheney & Sons, General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury, Oxfordshire]
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'John Blanch & Son, Gunmakers, 29, Gracechurch Street, London, E.C. (6 doors from Lombard St.)' [Cheney & Sons, General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury, Oxfordshire] [Circa 1880.]
£80.00

An attractive piece of Victorian commercial printing. Printed in black on a 31.5 x 21 cm sheet of grey paper. In very good condition, lightly-aged. Beneath the words 'John Blanch & Sons' | Hammerless Ejector Gun | (PATENT)' is the engraving (roughly 8.5 x 15 cm), showing the area around the hinge-pin and trigger of the gun, with a cartridge.

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[Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, London.] Illustrated handbill advertisement for 'Colt's New Lightning Magazine Rifle. .22 inch calibre.'

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Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, 14, Pall Mall, London, S.W. [J. Blanch & Son, 29, Gracechurch St., London, Gun Makers; Samuel Colt (1814-1862)]
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Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, 14, Pall Mall, London, S.W. January, 1888. [With stamp of 'J. Blanch & Son, 29, Gracechurch St., London, Gun Makers'.]
£150.00

Printed on both sides of a 4to (28 x 22.5cm) leaf of semi-opaque paper. Both sides with oval purple stamp of 'J. Blanch & Son, 29, Gracechurch St., London, Gun Makers'. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with one dog-eared corner, folded three times. An attractively-produced item, with specifications, and text printed in small type. Engraving of a bullet in top right-hand corner of first page, with the Colt prancing horse at top left, also a small engraving of the rifle, with a larger one, by R. M. Smart, showing how 'To Charge the Magazine'.

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