Counterfeiting not a new phenomenon!!
This advertisement placed by F. Joyce in the Cork Evening Herald in 1834 was aimed at protecting their market for "Anti-Corrosive Percussion Powder" etc..
"Several individuals are hawking Caps & Co to the trade"
A very earlier percussion cap tin for Frederick Joyce c.1830
Clients being advised to use bonafide dealers i.e., Messrs: Bowls, Richardson and Cleary of Cork, Boyd of Limerick and every respectable Gunmaker in England, Ireland and Scotland.
F.Joyce were not alone in having their products copied as will be seen in tomorrow's blog.
Our thanks to the owner for photography of the percussion cap tin and permission to publish.
We are always pleased to hear from anyone with snippets of information regarding the early Irish guntrade.
Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk
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