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A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE GUN RELATED DOCUMENTS, including...
1958-1999 - THE COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE PERMANENTE POUR L'EPREUVE DES ARMES A FEU PARTATIVES commonly known as the CIP. These are important historical documents that trace post-WW2 efforts by the Gunmakers Company in London and the Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House to reach agreement on the standardisation of cartridge/chamber sizes and dimensions for smooth bore and rifled arms in Britain and Europe:
a) 31 October 1958 - Copy of letter from the Birmingham Proof Master, Roger Lees, to the Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers, (FB Brandt) in London entitled HIGHEST MEAN SERVICE PRESSURE .410"-3" and stating that the Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House agree that "the figure of 5 tons be entered in Rules of Proof as the highest mean service pressure…" regarding the .410" - 3" cartridge.
b) 20 April 1959 - Subsequent to a request from THE AMERICAN RIFLEMAN, The Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers wrote to EW Tremayne of
Imperial Chemical Industries requesting the history of shotgun chamber and cartridge standardisation. This carbon copy of Tremayne's reply to The Clerk charts the history
from 1882 of the standardisation of 12 bore, 16 bore and 20 bore cartridges and later 10, 28 and .410 bores from the cartridge makers' point of view.
c) 3 October 1959 - The Birmingham Proof Master's historical and detailed three page report on his visit to Brescia, Italy (28/09/1959-03/10/1959) for the 6th Session of the CIP to consider the standardisation across Europe of cartridge and chamber sizes and dimensions for rifled arms. This meeting was subsequent to a meeting of European Cartridge Manufacturers earlier in the year with ICI. Some of the European Proof Masters who also attended the meeting were Colonel Van Geyseghem of Belgium; Monsieur Fiasson from St Etienne; Signor Poli from Gardone Val Trompia, Italy. Senior ministry officials from the German and Austrian Proof Houses were also present.
d) 25 September 1961 - Extract from SNAP-SHOTS entitled BORE DIAMETER OF FOREIGN SHOTGUNS. The publication entitled SNAP-SHOTS was issued by The Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House mainly for the Birmingham Gun Trade.
e) 29 February 1968 - Letter from Generale Spirlet (Chief Ambassador for CIP) in Liege to the Birmingham Proof Master, with translation attached.
f) Copy of drawing thought to have been sent to Generale Spirlet by the Birmingham Proof Master
g) 8 March 1968 - Carbon copy of the Birmingham Proof Master's reply to Generale Spirlet's letter of 29 February 1968.
h) 15 March 1968 - Generale Spirlet's reply to the Birmingham Proof Master's letter of 8 March 1968. See translation attached thereto.
i) 3 April 1968 - The Birmingham Proof Master's letter to LJ Pearce, managing director of Churchill (Gunmakers) Ltd and a member of the Proof House Committee in London, enclosing copies of Generale Spirlet's letters of 29.02.1968 and 15.03.1968.
j) 10 April 1968 - Photocopy of LJ Pearce's reply to the Birmingham Proof Master's letter of 3.04.1968.
k) 1968 Chart showing Minimum Chamber Dimensions for flanged cartridges of British origin.
l) Diagrams for Minimum Chamber Dimensions for FLANGED and RIMLESS cartridges of British Origin copied from drawings dated 24.02.1963.
m) 1967/1968 Two joint statements originally dated 4 December 1967 and May 1968 by the British Proof Authorities concerning the Proof of Guns for Magnum Cartridges in Britain and Europe. Copies of these statements were re-typed in December 1971.
n) Three large charts received from the CIP in 1968, with some hand-written details, in an effort to standardise cartridge and chamber sizes in Europe the UK and Europe. o) 1999 Holland & Holland "The Shooting Field" Volume 7, see p10 for Russell Wilkin's article A MARK OF DISTINCTION in which he refers to the European Commission Internationale Permanent… known in Britain as The CIP for short.
TWO BOOKS BY ROBERT CHURCHILL'S GREAT FRIEND, MACDONALD HASTINGS.
a) 1969 - Considered to be Mac Hastings' best book by many collectors of shooting memorabilia, ENGLISH SPORTING GUNS AND ACCESSORIES: with photos and detailed descriptions of the sportsman's accoutrements in a by-gone age.
b) 1998 - The Countrysport Press reprint of GAME SHOOTING by Robert Churchill and revised by Macdonald Hastings.
1926 - COLT, The Arm of Law and Order "MAKERS OF HISTORY" made into a book by F. Romer.
A fascinating, vintage, 64 page booklet entitled: MAKERS OF HISTORY - A Story of the Development of the History of Our Country and the Part Played in it by the COLT. The six chapters tell various stories regarding achievements due to the Colt. On the inside front cover is the famous poem THE TALE OF THE COLT by Henry Herbert Knibbs and on the inside back cover is the poem THE OLD COLT GUN by EA Brinnistool. Copyright 1926 by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Conn., USA.
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Estimate £80-120