A new book which has been written after many years of careful research by Brian Knapp who is a well known authority on small arms of the 18th & 19th Centuries.

The book is a  comprehensive study of the Calisher & Terry rifle, illustrated with over 170 rifle images and 50 period photographs, most of which have never been published in book form before. With many cuttings from contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, the C&T story is not only about one of the most popular capping breech loading rifles and a famous Birmingham manufacturer but also a social snap shot of Victorian life in a provincial manufacturing city during the industrial revolution.

The book is A4 size, hard back with over 200 pages.

PRICES

UK 2nd Class Post delivery, £48.20

Australia & New Zealand,  Air Mail £73.00

Canada & South Africa, Air Mail £68.20

USA, Air Mail £75.20

Europe and Scandinavia, not yet available

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CHAPTER LIST

Chapter 1…….…. Prologue

  Overview of the C&T story

Chapter 2…….…. Calisher & Terry the Partners

  The Calisher family and their partnership with William Terry

Chapter 3…….…. Patents and the Richard F Brand Connection

  Origins of the Terry system and related patents

Chapter 4…….…. British War Department, Trials, Contract, and Issue

  Ordnance trials of the C&T at Hythe and HMS Excellence. Indian and Colonial sales.

Chapter 5…….…. The Partnership in Operation, Beginning to End

   Explosion in Whittall St. Sales to the US Ordnance and end of the Calisher and Terry partnership

Chapter 6……….. The Calisher & Terry Product Range

  Numbers produced, Sporting rifles, Shotguns, Pistols, Commercial Military Carbines and Rifles

Chapter 7……….. The New South Wales Purchase, Issue and Use

  Identification and issue to the NSW police and volunteers. Actions against Bushrangers

Chapter 8……..... The Queensland Purchase, Issue and Use

  Issue in Queensland to police, volunteers and artillery

Chapter 9........... The Calisher & Terry in South Australia

   Competition between the C&T and other rifles by Volunteers in South Australia

Chapter 10......... The New Zealand Purchase, Issue and Use

   Volunteers and Militia, armed with the C&T in the Maori Wars

Chapter 11......... The Battling Bishop of Borneo & his Terry Rifle

   Unlikely Hero fights Moro pirates with his double barrelled Terry rifle

Chapter 12......... The Story of The Terry Rifle from Contemporary Sources

  Contemporary Newspaper and Magazine accounts extorting the benefits of the C&T rifle

Chapter 13......... List of Known Terry Specimens

    Contemporary list of surviving C&T rifles by serial number plus list of WD contracts

Chapter 14..........Foreign Copies of the Terry Breech Loading System

  Copies manufactured in America, Germany and Russia

Chapter 15..........Addendum