Quote Originally Posted by bighit View Post
Alex from SACS was told some of the historical airguns that may be handed into due to the AWL up here would likely go to the leeds museum or any others that did not have examples already.

Not sure if that happened.
As I alluded to above, RA Leeds have a bad rep among serious researchers. They keep masses of stuff in the non-accesible vault. If you are (great bloke, btw) Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons, they’ll let you in. A bit. Otherwise not. They are increasingly not in any way a centre for academic research, and more (pre-COVID) focussed on doing knights doing sword stuff to entertain nine-year olds.

In my judgement, they are highly unlikely to give a flying toss about airguns.

I’d be very happy to be proved wrong.