Saturday, 24 October 2015

Alexander Armstrong. Merchant





Alexander Armstrong

Merchant

High Street

Belfast

                       Advertisement from the Belfast Newsletter dated 22nd September 1774.

 The Belfast gunmaker's in the last quarter of the 18th century were not only finding it difficult to compete with the Dublin trade, as can be seen...  but the importation of weaponry from England was yet another problem!

We are always interested in small snippets of information related to the early Irish guntrade.

Dave Stroud . ramrodantiques.co.uk


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