Arthur Allan Vintage boxlock Side By Side 12 Bore/gauge

A very very rare vintage 16g sxs By A Allan of Glasgow.

Beautiful gun all original bluing remains.

great condition and hasn't been shot much at all.

12 month warranty

Arthur Allan of Glasgow

Arthur Wilson Allan was born in 1833 in Catrine, Ayrshire. He was the son of Arthur (a power loom dresser and later an ironmonger) and Agnes Wilson, the family living in Commercial Road, Gorbals, Glasgow.

Arthur (II) would later became an ironmonger's salesman working for his father, he does not appear to have had a formal gun making apprenticeship but was the right age to have completed one by 1855, when he established his own business as a gun maker or probably gun retailer at 12 London Street, Glasgow. He also sold cutlery and fishing tackle and in 1857 he described himself as a mathematical tool maker as well. In 1866, he opened an additional shop at 144 Trongate, Glasgow.

By 1881, Arthur had and married and had four children, including two sons who would later join the business, Arthur (III) (b.1872) and James (b.1876). In about 1883, the shop at 12 London Street was expanded next door into 14 London Street and later, between 1894 and 1897, the shop at 12-14 London Street was closed and the firm traded only from 144 Trongate. By 1901 both Arthur (III) and his brother James were working for their father as gunmakers and a workshop was established 2 Brunswick Street.

In 1917 Arthur died and one of the two sons took over the business until the firm was bought by fellow Glasgow gunmaker, William Horton. The business continued to trade as Arthur Allan Ltd. under Horton and claimed to have the largest stock of guns and fishing tackle in Scotland and provided a repair service with "skilled workmen always on the premises." In about 1926 the company moved to 3 West Nile Street where it remained until it closed in 1985.