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lancaster
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W.T.WYATT from Blandford and Ge.E. MURRAY from Brechin
#194694 - 24/11/11 06:10 AM

gentleman, I am not deep enough in the double rifle universe to knowing this two names a friend ask me about

W.T. Wyatt from Blandford on a 500 NE

Ge.E. Murray from Brechin on a 450 BPE

Christie's had a 12 ga from a D.Murray in Brechin.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=1876074

I suspect its the same family and Brechin is this here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brechin

have asked for pics from the barrels, hope someone can help
thank you

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Re: W.T.WYATT from Blandford and Ge.E. MURRAY from Brechin [Re: lancaster]
#194698 - 24/11/11 06:49 AM

Nigel Browns British Gunmakers volume II does know in Brechin only David Murray (& son). There is some other Murrays but their adresses are in Birmingham.

Same book tells: William Thomas Wyatt, Mkt Pl, Blandford, D`set 1850-67,c.1878.

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Re: W.T.WYATT from Blandford and Ge.E. MURRAY from Brechin [Re: Igorrock]
#194702 - 24/11/11 07:45 AM

Boothroyd's "Directory of British Gunmakers" has only this on Murray:
Murray, David Jnr., 23 1/2 David Street, Brechin, Forfar, c.1900
Perhaps there were several generations of Murrays in Brechin?
Boothroyd does not list any Wyatt.
I suspect both Murray and Wyatt were country gunmakers who ordered guns with their adress from the Birmingham guntrade and merely retailed them. My own .500-450#1 BPE double rifle was sold by A.Robertson & Son, Wick, Scotland, but certainly made and proofed in Birmingham too. It is very similar to the "Wyatt" rifle, see here:
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=150854&an=0&page=3#Post150854
Remember, most German country "gunmakers", even "name" ones, had their guns made by the Suhl and Zella-Mehlis guntrade.

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