Gun Watch Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Alex Martin English Boxlock £155 12 gauge Shotgun Trade Seller Used - Average Condition Kettering , Northamptonshire Side by Side, 1/4 Choke, 3/4 Choke, 30" barrels Description Sunken rib English Game gun ! New Stock by proffesional stocker ! Tight as the day it was New VERY VERY slight pit mark in the right barrel 14 3/4 pull to the front trigger 2 1/2 inch (65mm) chambers Good English Game gun for the price of a couple of slabs of cartridges This gun is being sold by Pigeon Watch member wabbitbosher. Message them here View all the gun sale details on Gun Watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldivalloch Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 That's a nice looking gun which will give someone a LOT of pleasure for not a lot of money. £155 is peanuts for something that will feel and balance just right. But for the record, it's a Scottish game gun, not an English one - Alex Martin was based in Glasgow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketestace Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Blinking Nora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Like a lot of boxlocks with makers names around Britain including Scotland it most likely started life in Birmingham. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabbitbosher Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 That's a nice looking gun which will give someone a LOT of pleasure for not a lot of money. £155 is peanuts for something that will feel and balance just right. But for the record, it's a Scottish game gun, not an English one - Alex Martin was based in Glasgow. Yup it was finished and Sold in Scotland but made in Birmingham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chacotawas Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 As a child in the 1940s I would sometimes accompany my father on a tramcar journey into Glasgow. The highlight was always a visit to Alex Martin's in Exchange Square, a somewhat snooty emporium full to the brim with exotica in the form of racks and racks of beautiful shotguns and my favourites, the rifles with bolts! There was one in particular, a .275 Mannlicher Schoenauer that became an image that haunted my entire childhood. I used to stand transfixed by the beauty of the thing while my father bought his flies and fishing stuff. It was an upmarket shop all right- they even had branches in faraway places like Stirling, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. People didn't get about so much in those days! I should buy this old gun, I really should...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squash wavy Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 (edited) Sold to me! Learnt more about this firm after reading the stories here. Has a bit of history and like the fact it's made in Brum. Edited November 2, 2014 by Squash wavy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabbitbosher Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Sold to me! Learnt more about this firm after reading the stories here. Has a bit of history and like the fact it's made in Brum. SOLD ! Many thanks Squash Wavy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabbitbosher Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 In about 1934 a branch was opened under the name of Alex Martin at 2 Friars Street, Stirling, and in about 1938 their Aberdeen shop moved to 25 Bridge Street. It is unlikely that the firm made any guns themselves after 1939, during the 1950s and early 1960s most of their guns were made by A A Brown & Sons of Birmingham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 In about 1934 a branch was opened under the name of Alex Martin at 2 Friars Street, Stirling, and in about 1938 their Aberdeen shop moved to 25 Bridge Street. It is unlikely that the firm made any guns themselves after 1939, during the 1950s and early 1960s most of their guns were made by A A Brown & Sons of Birmingham. As were most of Churchill's box locks I believe! Later (and to date) A A Brown made superb side locks under their own name, as good or arguably better than anything out of London! In fact they probably had a hand in many guns coming out of the top London gunmakers!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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