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Brown Wire Gun Stock Certificate [132813]

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Brown Wire Gun Stock Certificate  [132813]
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The certificate features a vignette of inventor John Hamilton Brown on the front and a unique vignette of a wire gun on the back. In the same month the certificate was issued, the company tested its ten-Inch gun before the ordnance department at Sandy Hook. It could shoot 100-rounds with 10 pounds of powder in each round. Its six inch caliber gun had velocities of hundreds of feet per second greater than the generally accepted maximum service velocity of three thousand feet per second, which was considered to be about the limit for guns of this caliber at that time. Issued for 200 shares uncancelled, incorporated in Maine.


Date: 1903
Country (if not USA):
State: New York
City: New York City
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