Starnes James
Finds like this
don’t come along too often. These pistols are, for all intents and purposes,
brand new.
They were made
by James Starnes in Romford, Essex nearly two hundred years ago, covered with a
protective coating of, probably shellac, and that’s how I came across them.
I gently wiped
over the now rusty brown coloured shellac coating to reveal the most beautiful
color Case Hardening.
I can’t believe
I was the first person other than James Starnes to see these pistols in all
their untouched, unfired and even unsnapped glory.
James Starnes
was recorded working in the High Street, Romford, Essex between 1823 & 1839.
A collector
