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.
Extraordinary wages will be given to two or three Journeymen gunsmiths, who ae well skilled in stocking of muskets and rifles. Likewise good encouragement will be given to a gun lock filer, that can make musket locks. Apply to Thomas Palmer on the north side of Market-street between Fourth and Fifth-streets, Philadlphia.
N.B. Any person that has skill to accomplish either of the aforsaid branches, may, if they choose, work piece work and reveive their cash every Saturday afternoon or a sum of money will be advanced to them by giving security for the delivery of their work.
Penn Gaz Supo. to April 10, 1776, No. 2468 - Hit Soc.
To be sold wholesale and retail by Thomas Palmer, gunsmith, on the noth side of the Market-street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, Philadelphia. Cheap neat and well made Touch-hole Prickers and Pan Brushes, being very necessary and convenient to those who use guns, for keeping the lock in compleat order.
Pistol with flint lock, full sock of walnut, silver mountings, octagonal-to-round rifled barrel. Although the general appearance of this pistol suggests a sophisticated English style, it has some provincial details which indicate it was made in Pennsylvania.
Pair of pistols with flint locks marked Wm. Henry, full stock of walnut, silver mountings, mask butt caps, and brass (cannon) barrles with Nazareth engraved on the top facet of the barrel.
Pistol with percussion lock, full stock of curly maple, brass and mountings, and octagonal barrel marked J. L. in script letters on the top facet of the barrel. Although this pistol was made in the percussion era, its form is very similar to pistols made in the late flintlock era. Long is known to have used this form of the lock-bolt plate on most of his rifles.