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NUMBERS STAMPED ON IRISH GUNS

2nd February 2015, 07:21 PM

kahnjar1

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Originally Posted by corrado26

Thanks to cutlassCollector we now know that the Registration Act was published in 1843, so I think that my pistol is not marked because it was built long before the act of 1843
corrado26

Not necessarily. The blunderbuss shown would also have been made before that date. I believe that your pistol was not owned in Ireland, or it would have been stamped.

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