This is the brand new edition of Donald Dallas's highly acclaimed book Boss & Co, Builders of Best Guns Only. This second edition brings the history of the firm right up to date.
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This is the brand new edition of Donald Dallas's highly acclaimed book Boss & Co, Builders of Best Guns Only. This second edition brings the history of the firm right up to date.
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Add this copy of Boss and Co. : Builders of Best Guns Only. Guns Only. to cart. $72.00, like new condition, Sold by Michael Patrick McCarty, Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New Castle, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Quiller Press Ltd.
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 11x8x1; The gunmaking firm of Boss & Company has been in continuous existence for two centuries. Throughout this period, unlike many of its contemporaries, it has remained a family firm. Its logo "Builders of Best Guns Only" was conceived without any arrogance and perfectly describes both the firm and its founder, Thomas Boss (1790-1857), who built sporting guns and rifles of the the highest quality only. This tradition was carried on after his death and today the firm produces best guns to exactly that same standard. They have been responsible for major technical innovations in gunmaking. John Robertson, the proprietor at the turn of the century, produced the first reliable single trigger that won universal acclaim. He also invented an over-and-under gun that is generally agreed to be the lightest, strongest and most handsome over-and-under ever produced. [The author] has undertaken considerable research into the history of the family and the guns they built. He charts the changes, fortunes and misfortunes of the business throughout its history." Chapters include: Family origins; Thomas Boss gunmaker; 73 St. James's Street; The guns and rifles of the muzzle-loading era; the Scottish connection; John Robertson, proprietor off Boss & Co., 1891; Chattels and chocolates; The 'Young Governors'; Horse Shoe Alley and beyond; Building a best gun only; The guns and rifles of the Robertson Era. Many appendices give between them a mass of information such as the Boss family tree, the Paddison family tree, barrel wording, trade labels, chronologies of the firm, breakdowns of gun production covering the nineteenth century to 1950, the dating of Boss guns, patents, and gunmakers employed by Boss & Co.
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