A lot of time, customers who contemplate selling firearms to us here at Parker’s gun store tell us what they have, and then follow it up with “Is that too old for you guys to be interested in buying?” Invariably our answer is that if it shoots a projectile, we’re interested. From matchlock to machine gun, cannon to Colt, your gun is neither too new, nor too old for us to be interested in. Recently, we bought a large collection of antique firearms from an East Coast estate. Amongst them was this absolutely spectacular flintlock blunderbuss made in Birmingham, UK, by gunmaker Theophilus Richards anywhere between the latter part of the 18th century and the early 19th century (i.e. the American Revolutionary War period – roughly the 1770s to 1800 AD). Richards was considered one of the finest gunsmiths of his day, and was father of William Westley Richards, who … Read More
