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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, 314| 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’3 work, as flasks, 
pouches, spare nipples, powder, wadding, Eley’s cartridges, or 
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- 
