Lost Pistol. Limerick-Cratloe.

H. Dalany (sic)
Silver Mounted Pistol
Lost.

                             Limerick Chronicle advertisement dated February 1782.
                                Material courtesy of The Granary Library, Limerick.

Henry Delany/Delaney was a Huguenot immigrant gunmaker who became a member of the London Gunmakers' Company in 1715.  Refer to: Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740 by Neal & Back or The Huguenot Gunmakers' of London. J.A.A.S..1968, J.F. Hayward.
               
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