Tuesday 28 June 2016

Samuel Wallace.




Samuel Wallace

Gunmaker
Dublin.




                                Converted brass barrelled blunderbuss by Samuel Wallace


          Drum & nipple conversion.  Brass barrel with top folding bayonet and slide release.

                                       Engraved "Dublin".  Crowned "V" & "P" Proofs 
                                          and registered in County Fermanagh (F 7883 )
                                                  
                                                      Trading dates and addresses:

Wallace, Samuel
Dublin
1782
Became a Freeman.
Wallace, Samuel
Dublin
1784-1788
2 William Street
Wallace, Samuel
Dublin
1789-1798
22 Eustace Street


               Please refer to our "older posts" dated  16/1/2016, 24/12/2015 & 7/10/2015

It would appear that Samuel Wallace died in the year of the Rebellion, 1798  and this always casts certain suspicions over what role he may have taken during this difficult time in Irish history. As noted by M.S. Dudley Westropp many gunmakers were taken to the Pigeon House within Dublin Castle and were never to reappear!!

                        Our thanks to the owner for photography and permission to publish.

                             Samuel Wallace 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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