English 10 ga.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Ken Descovich

To my knowledge a book on clabrough shotguns have not been printed before and this is a totally new book that will make any side by side collector happy to have in there library.

sorry - I certainly didn't intend to get anything started - i have been trading emails with Mr Sheldon about the reprint for nearly a year

the original was done in 1978 and unavailable any where

Lawrence P. Shelton, Clabrough Golcher & Co
Far Far West Publishers, 1978 - 119 pages

listed here
http://books.google.com/books/about/...d=e9WmHAAACAAJ

or here
http://www.worldcat.org/title/jp-cla...s/oclc/8868056

and discussed here
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/...6172d7d6ab57c4

[double barrel]

I stand corrected

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Ken Descovich

I stand corrected

go ahead and sit - its no big deal

[double barrel]

Thanks my legs were getting tired

[C.O.B.]

Wasn't JP Claybough & Sons an importer from San Fransisco?

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Wasn't JP Claybough & Sons an importer from San Fransisco?

he went home to set up a manufacturing operation in Birmingham's gun quarter

according to the new edition of the books website

"John P. Clabrough was born in England where he learned the gunmaking trade. He traveled to U.S.A. as a young man, worked in a few gunshops there. Finally opened his own gunshop in San Francisco. He moved back to England in 1873 to manufacture shotguns for the american market. His business was a great success. At this time his guns would be hammer guns. He later manufactured hammerless guns. He sold the business to D. V. Johnstone in 1892. Johnstone continued making Clabrough guns and also his own brand. "