Saturday 7 May 2016

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


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