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tile importing houses. It is not too much to say, that a first- 

 rate maker's gun is never for sale by the former, unless it comes 

 into their hands second-hand, and by an accident ; and that the 

 work imported by the latter, and disposed of at wholesale or 

 retail, is the very worst style of Birmingham pinchback gim- 

 crackery. From Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond Street ; 

 Joseph Lang, 7 Haymarket; William Moore and William Gray, 

 78 Edgeware Road ; Samuel Nock, 49 Regent Circus ; James 

 Purday, 3141 Oxford Street ; as also from the Messrs. Egg, Pic- 

 cadilly; Forsyth, Leicester Square; and Manton, Dover Street; 

 first-rate guns may be procured for first-rate prices ; and in the 

 long run, I believe, to give such prices for such pieces, will be 

 found to be not only the best but the cheapest policy. 



For the heavy Duck guns, I earnestly recommend Mullin, of 

 Barclay Street, New-York, as the best and cheapest maker in the 

 United States, be the other who he may. He will furnish a sin- 

 gle Duck, such as I have described above, thoroughly finished, 

 in the style Col. Hawker recommends, without any engraving or 

 ornament, for seventy-five dollars, or perhaps less money ; and I 

 will back such a gun of his make, on the dimensions given above, 

 to beat any imported gun of any dimensions, which can be de- 

 livered in New-York for the same price. Furthermore, I would 

 rather employ him to build me a gun of any style, not to exceed 

 one hundred and fifty dollars in price, than buy any imported 

 gun at a New-York shop for one hundred and seventy-five, or 

 import one myself at the same price. I have tested his work 

 thoroughly, and can speak to its excellence and durability. 

 Constable, in Philadelphia, also makes well, and these two are 

 the only makers on this side the Atlantic, whose work I would 

 care to purchase for my own use. 



For all articles of imported gunsmith's work, as flasks, 

 pouches, spare nipples, powder, wadding, Eley's cartridges, X)r 

 the like, Henry T. Cooper, a few doors above Maiden Lane, in 

 Broadway, will be found a competent and complete purveyor. 

 No one can go astray in sending orders for any supplies of 

 fancy or out-of-the-way implements or materials of sportsman- 



