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.
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.
