Rifle with percussion lock marked A. & B. for Amos and Border, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, silver inlays, set triggers, and octagonal barrel. Examples of business partnerships like this one of Amos and Border and Co. are rarely found in the gun trade.
Maplewood shoot, July 5, 1939. Five men with shotguns or rifles, Maplewood, New Jersey. Identified are: Harry B. Moulton, Walter B. Farmer, Walter A. Peterson, Harry B. Hostetter and George M. Proctor.
Men at shooting range. Written on back: "Pinehurst with J. Price, Spring 1942. Won N-S champ. #578 x 600. Ejector had broken on Browning and was using can opener to get shells out. Photo by Miss Skelly of Wilmington."
Muskets stocked, in the best and neatest manner, by Edward Pole, in Market street, near the Court-House, Philadelphia; where may be had the best kind of wires and brushes for firelocks, priming flasks and oil bottles to bit in the cartouch boxes; musket and pistol balls; musket and pistol cartridges of all sizes, and cartridge formers. Also cartridges made up, on moderate terms by the hundred or larger quantity.
N.B. A very neat cutteau de chase, and a small sword, to be sold at the above place.
Penna. Evening Post, No. 135 (Phila.) Dec 2, 1775.
