Author:
Gunmakers Business Card
Title:
B Norman Breech Loading Gun Maker Framlingham
Price:
£35.00
Year:
Nd date circa 1900
Summary:
Engraved business card 9cm x 6cm the card notes "Agents For Eley Bros Ammunition Curtis & Harvey & J Halls Gunpowders Chilled And Patent Shot Etc. B.N was many years with J. Purdey 314 ? Oxford St London". Benjamin Norman was the son of William Norman Jnr (a butcher) and Ann. He was born in 1833 in Eye in Suffolk. In about 1847 he was apprenticed to a gun maker, but whether it was a local gunmaker or not is not known. but it may well be that he was apprenticed to James Purdey, he reportedly worked for Purdey (amongst others?), possibly as an outworker His business in Framlingham was recorded as a gunmaker in Castle Street only from 1878. In the 1881 census he described himself as a master gun maker,
Ref:
23057
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