Description
Item number : UK HAW CAP A63½ ADAMS
Origin : United Kingdom
Style : Cap- / Decapping tool
Gauge : 12
Maker : G. & J.W. HAWKSLEY, Carver street, Sheffield
Markings : “TRADEMARK“DESPATCH RECAPPER” G. & J.W. HAWKSLEY, SHEFFIELD 12”
”ADAMS & Co, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, LONDON” on pilar
Height : 132 mm
Weight : 411 grams
Materials body : Brass
Paint : The tool has not been painted. But only the bottom is red. The bottoms of most specimens are also painted red
Condition : Very good
Repairs : None
Remarks:
The Hawksley catalogue 1889 describes this tool as
A63½ “Hawksley’s “ Patent” Despatch” Recapper and Expeller”.
ADAMS & Co was a gunmaker in London at 32 Finsbury pavement EC Londen from 1881-1894
According Nigel Brown in British Gunmakers , Volume 1, London