UK HAW CAP A63½ ADAMS

CODE UK HAW CAP A63½ ADAMS Categories: , Product ID: 3368

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

Additional information

Number

UK Dixon BC A50