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  1. 22-10-2021, 09:38 AM #1
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    Who made a Gem pattern?...

    Who made a Gem pattern air gun?...


    The general line is that "everyone and their uncle made a Gem pattern"...but, when you look into it, it just doesn't quite pan out that way...so who did manufacture a Gem pattern air gun?...


    Haviland and Gunn
    Quackenbush
    Eisenwerke Gaggenau / Bergmann
    Langenhahn - father and son Friedrich =LZ, and Fritz =FLZ
    Jean Marck
    Diana / MGR
    Frederick Cox/CG Bonehill
    Ocsar Will
    K.B. - Paris
    ...and a much later Spanish Komet?




    Anyone else I've forgotten or didn't know about?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DCL_dave View Post
    Who made a Gem pattern air gun?...


    The general line is that "everyone and their uncle made a Gem pattern"...but, when you look into it, it just doesn't quite pan out that way...so who did manufacture a Gem pattern air gun?...


    Haviland and Gunn
    Quackenbush
    Eisenwerke Gaggenau
    Langanhan - father and son Friedrich =LZ, and Fritz =FLZ
    Jean Marck
    Diana / MGR
    Frank Cox
    Ocsar Will
    ...and a much later Spanish Komet?




    Anyone else I've forgotten or didn't know about?
    I suppose Bonehill's Anglo Sure Shot Britannia falls into the Gem-pattern category, Dave? Invented by Frederick Cox
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    Lane's?
    Henry Boker (I doubt if he actually made it)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
    I suppose Bonehill's Anglo Sure Shot Britannia falls into the Gem-pattern category, Dave? Invented by Frederick Cox
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    Well spotted, Danny...I have corrected the list now and yes of course the is a Gem pattern

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    Lane's?
    Henry Boker (I doubt if he actually made it)?
    Think Lane Brothers were only retailers who adapted and improved certain Gem patterns, mainly EG types but possibly others too?

    Think Boker was a retailer as well?...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DCL_dave View Post



    Think Lane Brothers were only retailers who adapted and improved certain Gem patterns, mainly EG types but possibly others too?

    Think Boker was a retailer as well?...
    That doesn't surprise me Dave. Why build something when you can just stick your name on something someone else has done!
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  6. 22-10-2021, 06:51 PM #6
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    That doesn't surprise me Dave. Why build something when you can just stick your name on something someone else has done!
    Lincoln Jeffries springs to mind, although he supposedly "improved" aspects of the foreign guns he sold and stamped up before he came up with his tap loading patent. I can't recall in which book it is I read about in now, but the subject of British gunsmiths importing and stamping up foreign guns was a huge bone of contention way back for the Birmingham and London makers.

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