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Brown’ s whaling-gun: ; 
Stock, barrel, and guard-plate, gun-metal; trigger-guard fastened to stock with 
three screws; rigid eye on trigger-guard for lanyard; front and rear sights; breech- 
plug cast with stock; stock recessed for two nipples; stock and barrel connected by 
a screw-joint; muzzle reinforced with a gun-metal band. Stamped ‘‘ Robert Brown, 
New London, Conn.’’ Length, 46 inches. Weight, 36 pounds. 
Brand gun, No. 1: 
Barrel, cast-steel; front part of barrel round. Elongated thimble for ramrod. 
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Ramrod, hickory, with brass thimble and screw. Skeleton stock, iron, screwed to 
barrel. Guard-plate, steel. Rigid eye for lanyard. Lanyard attached. Stock and 
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barrel ‘‘blued.’? Length, 38 inches. Weight, 23 pounds. 
Shoulder-gun, with brass stock: 
Barrel, cast-steel, octagonal. Rear and front sights. Two thimbles for ramrod. 
Ramrod, hickory, with brass thimble and double worm-screw. Under side of barrel 
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grooved, for ramrod. Stock, gun-metal, cast with breech-plug and rigid eye for 
lanvard. Grip wrapped with marline. Lock, common percussion. Length, 354 
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inches. Weight, 28 pounds. 
Breech-loading whaling-qun: 
Skeleton stock, cast-iron, painted black. Stock and breech-piece cast in one piece, 
with a small rigid eye at rear guard-plate for lanyard; barrel, steel, reinforced and 
screwed to the stock; breechblock, containing firing-pin, hinged to stock, and, when 
closed, held by a snap-spring; central-fire cartridge. Length, 33 inches. Weight, 27 
pounds. 
The Cunningham darting-gun: 
Breech-loading hinge-gun, with harpoon, strap, and bomb-lance. Gun: Barrel, 
socket, breech-snap, hinge, and lugs, gun-metal. Trigger, steel rod, projecting beyond 
the muzzle. Lanceand cartridge combined. Harpoon: Common toggle-iron. Two 
barbs on the toggle. Mortised head; rear end of shank made to fit the lugs of the 
gun. Eye for rope-strap. Toggle branded, ‘‘J. A. 8.”’ (John A. Sawyer, manufac- 
turer). Iron-strap, whale line; one end of strap bent into the eye of harpoon and 
the other provided with an eye-splice, into which one end of the whale line is 
intended to be fastened. Length of gun, 153 inches. Length of trigger, 21 inches. 
Length of harpoon, 34 inches. Length of strap, 64 inches. 
Darting-gun: 
Breech, brass, cast with breech-piece. Barrel, steel, serewed to the breech-piece. 
Rear end of the gun terminates in a conical socket, into which may be fitted the pole 
or handle. A vertical slot is cut through the breech for the reception of the ham- 
mer, which was pivoted and retained in its firing position by the rod or trigger. 
Hammer, wanting. Trigger projects over the muzzle, and moves freely back and 
forth in a guide near the end of the barrel. A sleeve of metal, or other suitable 
material, was intended to fit over the breech, or lock-case, to render it water-tight. 
The harpoon is of the pattern known as the ‘‘temple-gig.’’ Toggle, malleable 
cast-iron, pivoted in the cheeks of the forward end of the shank. Shank, composed 
of two pieces of conjoined iron; first half, wrought-iron, slotted near its rear end for 
the iron arm with rigid eye, to which the iron strap should be made fast, and pro- 
vided with a female screw in a recess in the rear end; rear part of shank cast, and 
screwed to the forward half of the shank. Length of gun, 173 inches. Length of 
trigger, 27} inches. Length of gun-harpoon, 23} inches. 
Bursted barrel of a whaleman’s darting-gun: 
Barrel of a darting-gun, fractured by premature explosion of a bomb-lance when 
darted at a whale. Brought home by a whaleman as an interesting ‘‘curio.’? Por- 
tion of hickory pole in the socket. Length, 10 inches. 
Improved breech-loading tonite hammerless darting-gun: 
This gun is an improvement over the old breech-loading darting-gun No. 2, manufac- 
tured by William Lewis, of New Bedford. It is 174 inches long, seven-eighths of an 
inch bore, and is as light as is consistent with strength. It is loaded from the breech 
by unscrewing the barrel, and has been especially designed for Arctic whaling, but is 
equally effective in sperm whaling. The materials used are the same as in the old 
shoulder-guns, but the lock-case is entirely closed to prevent ice interfering with the 
action of the lock, and it will discharge the bomb under water as well as out without 
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