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The latest pair of new A A Brown & Sons best sidelock Supreme de Luxe guns have just been completed. (21/9/11) We shall make a gallery of photographs charting sections of their manufacture, engraving and finally, the finished product. They have just been photographed by Matt Brown and when the gallery is made, in a few weeks time, notice will be drawn to it here. In the meantime, the small image at the top of our pages gives a snapshot of one of the guns.
The famous American gun writer, Vic Venters, as part of his Guncraft series of articles, has written a profile on Keith Thomas, our most popular modern day gun engraver. It is Keith who has just engraved the pair of new A A Brown guns referred to above. With the permission of Vic we reproduce the article HERE as supplied most kindly by the Shooting Sportsman magazine in a PDF format. (Adobe PDF reader required) At the time of writing the article the commission Keith was working on was our pair of new 20 bores. The article is just over 2 megebytes in file size.
All of the guns on our Used Guns page are now sold, we expect to receive another pair of A A Brown's to offer for sale soon
Here is an image of a lovely stock we have recently released from seasoning, this was selected for a new gun order in early 2012.
New, for sale, a pair of 20 bore Beretta "Classic" 687 EELL 30" barrels, Prince of Wales grip, English style splinter forend, special "Classic" game scene engraving, beautiful stocks. Cased in Beretta "Classic" cases. Ideal for futher customising but fine as they are now, ready for the 2011 season. More information and images here
We have a number of keen enquiries from clients searching for A A Brown guns, in both 12 and 20 bore. If you have a 'Brown' and are considering selling please get in touch to consider appointing us as your selling agent.
Information will be uploaded here soon of two new books we are offering, "Best of British" by David Grant Vic Venters and soon,"Guncraft" by Vic Venters
Best of British is in stock and is priced at £35 net, our copies are signed by the authors.
"British Gunmakers" Volume's 1 & 2 now available from A A Brown & Sons
Scroll down and click "Books available" to see details of Nigel Brown's superb reference books. Also just available (Nov. 2006) the new excellent book for cartridge collecters "Eley Cartridges" by C. W. (Bill) Harding, a highly researched book on the Eley family.
Scroll down to see four pictures of a re-stock, a Holland & Holland "Royal" 12 bore c.1914, No.27### with 30" barrels, now completely renovated and fitted with a new 16" pull beautiful stock made from Turkish walnut supplied by Sidki, just to remind customers of that aspect of our best gun maintenance service.
The purpose of our website is to offer an online brochure of our products, news and services.
Usual opening hours : Monday to Friday 09.30 to 13.00 and 14.15 to 18.30 (Saturdays by appointment only) Please telephone before calling as there are times, due to business commitments, when the premises are not occupied. Thank you.
We are not offering online sales through our site - to purchase you should contact us by your preferred method. (Click Enquiries)
For latest news items scroll to the end of this page
Our core activities consist of :-
Building bespoke ‘Supreme de Luxe’ sporting side by side guns to order. Made "in house" to best standards.
Sales and customising of good quality continental guns, especially Beretta. See pages on "BB game" and New Beretta's
Brokerage and sales of pre-owned high quality guns. See our Used Sales page for current stock, specifications and images.
Repairs, renovations and servicing of our own make and other best guns including stock fitting, choke alterations etc.
Re-stocking of fine guns using high quality walnut, to see images and more information on stocking services scroll down this page......
Supply and re-fits of gun-cases, gunslips, cartridge bags etc., in finest leathers or canvas together with cleaning accessories and gun-case tools of the highest quality.
We take pride in the quality of our workmanship, attention to detail and service to our customers.
Selling a best gun? Why not try our Brokerage service and receive online promotion through our used guns page.
Thank you for visiting our web-site, Robin Brown. Proprietor and web-site manager.
DETAILS OF RE-STOCKING AND IMAGES OF RECENT COMMISSIONS
Below, pictures of a re-stocked A A Brown & Sons completed in 2003.
Link, click here:- www.gunstockblanks.co.uk
NEWS SECTION
With sadness we report the death on 15th June 2006 of Sidney Brown. Click here for more details
We have several enquiries for used A A Brown guns, preferably with either 28" or 30" barrels, if you have such a gun you would like to sell please consider us a potential sales broker.
We are currently updating several pages of our site, mainly the history and used gun sales pages. A box of old family photographs have been found which contain a number of previously unpublished images from the early days. Robin is scanning these, adding text sourced from his fathers reminiscences and progressively uploading them within the history section. We hope you find them interesting. ALSO, WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE USED GUNS SECTION UP TO DATE ON A REGULAR BASIS. (Click Used Sales Bar). In addition, we are updating our GALLERY photographs. The thumbnails, identified as 'Updated', are the same but the picture that opens up is better, in one way or another. First three are pictures of the Matthew Boulton Tribute guns. Look for these thumbnails on the Gun Photographs page. Several are now improved, we will progressively work our way through the rest so check back for updates periodically. (This image,below, is inactive) Also, the BB game article on Brown customised Beretta's is now illustrated.
The Matthew Boulton 
Tribute 20 bore guns
We are saddened to hear of the death, following a long illness, of James (Jimmie) C. Codell Jr. on 21st December 2004. It was Jimmie Codell, of Winchester, Kentucky, together with his first wife, Carol, who commissioned the Boulton Tribute guns for delivery in 1985. His passion for all things Matthew Boulton was represented, for him, in this project. His collection of Matthew Boulton "pieces" numbered over 2000 and he was consulted by auctioneers and other collectors as an expert on the subject. He presented several notable exhibitions at museums and at the Lexington exhibition the Boulton guns were on show along with many items from his collection. Our sympathy goes to his family with apologies for being unable to attend the memorial service held in Lexington on January 22nd 2005.
Now sold, our 12 bore BLE from the early 1950's that we acquired a few years ago to use as a renovation project. Click on Used Sales button to see a group of pictures of the finished project. Here is a single image of the gun......
Above, the 12 bore A A Brown & Sons boxlock ejector # 2617 c.1950
We have placed on loan to the museum of the Birmingham Proof House our "ANSON STAR" air pistol No.37 and an "ABAS MAJOR" air pistol from our own collection. Visitors to this fine collection can enjoy viewing these along with many other fascinating exhibits. Contact should be directly to the Birmingham Proof House. To visit the website of the Proof House, click on this link:
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