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Lot Essay
Jonadab Holloway served King Charles I as gunmaker to the Royalist Army in Oxford in the years 1643-46, and was Contractor to Ordnance, 1651-57. He was made free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1656, and appointed Gunner in the Tower of London in 1664, and Handgun Maker to the Office of Ordnance in 1666. He died in 1669
For further information on Holloway's career, and the importance of his contracts, see Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 126-130, and John Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. I, pp. 56-7
The barrel of this carbine is locked by a bolt which slides into the iron plate at the rear of the fore-stock. The bolt can be withdrawn by pressing the trigger when the cock is held by the dog catch or is in the fired position. A similar system was employed by Harman Barne and other Civil War gunmakers - cf. the Barne pistols described and illustrated by Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 109-113, plates 26a-j. In 1661 Holloway had petitioned for the appointment of Handgun Maker to King Charles II in succession to Barne
For further information on Holloway's career, and the importance of his contracts, see Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 126-130, and John Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. I, pp. 56-7
The barrel of this carbine is locked by a bolt which slides into the iron plate at the rear of the fore-stock. The bolt can be withdrawn by pressing the trigger when the cock is held by the dog catch or is in the fired position. A similar system was employed by Harman Barne and other Civil War gunmakers - cf. the Barne pistols described and illustrated by Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 109-113, plates 26a-j. In 1661 Holloway had petitioned for the appointment of Handgun Maker to King Charles II in succession to Barne