James Rainsford.Dublin

James Rainsford
Gunsmith
Dublin

                    A Pair of Brass Mounted Blunderbuss Pistols by James Rainsford c.1785
                                               Photography courtesy of Alan Ware.


This pair of pistols with brass lockplates, Spanish form brass barrels were registered under the 1843 Registration Act in County Kerry (KE 233). Barrels engraved "Ransford" (sic). Roller frizzens.

James Rainsford  trading dates and addresses:

Noted as a Freeman in 1757.*
                                                                   1757-1759?

Rainsford,James	Dublin	1760-1761	Castle Lane
Rainsford,James	Dublin	1761-1774	Dame Street.
Rainsford,James	Dublin	1775-1782	29 Dame Street
Rainsford,James	Dublin	1783- d.1790	102 Grafton Street

               
   **£4-10-0 paid to James Rainsford for a blunderbuss and case of pistols for the Dublin Society
                                                             3rd April 1788.

                  

                         *Libraries and Archive: Ancient Freemen of Dublin

Courtesy of 

Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

                            **  James Rainsford originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA.

Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.

Vol.11. No 1.

                                                   Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk