Mr. Alley Dublin 1773.

 

Mr Lewis " Lew" Alley

Gunmaker

Dublin

                            Advertisement dated 3rd May 1773: Saunders Newsletter
                                 Image Courtesy of The British Newspaper Archive.

Transcript of above advertisement:
"Lost on the Road between Naas and Dublin, on Monday the 26th April 1773, a flat Machine Pocket Pistol, made by Collins*, with a Silver Cap, and the Stock inlaid with Silver. Whoever brings it to Mr Alley, Gunmaker, Ship Street, shall receive half a guinea. If offered to Sale, 'tis requested it may be stopped , and Information given to said Alley, who has the Fellow to it".

        Please refer to our "older posts" with respect to Lewis Alley dated: 7/3/2018, 3/3/2018,            1/3/2018, 28/2/2018, 27/2/2018, 24/2/2018 & 3/1/2016.

* The pistol lost would have been made by Matthew Collins,another first class Dublin gunmaker.
     Please refer to our "older posts" with respect to Matt Collins dated 21/8/2016 & 4/11/2015
                      
                   We are always interested in material related to either of these gunmakers.
                                                 Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk