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charlie cleveland · 08-11-2011, 06:55 PM

anybody know anything about guns made by w. d. golden huddersfield.... were his guns cheaply maDE OR were they pretty good... hope some body has run across this guys guns before...i figure its a english gun maker but i could be wrong... charlie

OH Osthaus · 08-11-2011, 09:27 PM

a search shows the name was absorbed by Peter Dyson
http://www.peterdyson.co.uk/

he is listed in Terry Weiland's Vintage Brirish Shotgun
http://www.terrywieland.com/Terry-Wi...h-Shotguns.htm

charlie cleveland · 08-11-2011, 09:39 PM

thanks for the info.. got to decide now if he built good quality guns he probably did from what info ive read so far... charlie

OH Osthaus · 08-11-2011, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

thanks for the info.. got to decide now if he built good quality guns he probably did from what info ive read so far... charlie

William Golden, Gunmaker of Huddersfield and 'Gunmaker to the King of Prussia'; http://www2.hud.ac.uk/staffprofiles/...hp?staffid=529

I had not heard of him, but with the many hundreds of British makers to pick from I would expect Weiland would not have reported on the junk dealers