Catalogue of the Greener collection of important firearms, part one comprising a fine and rare percussion cap sporting gun with the Pauly breech loading action, a rare pin fire multi-chamber harmonica shot gun, a very rare breech loading musket converted from flintlock to percussion cap and subsequently to pin fire, a fine early flintlock holster pistol by Silke, circa 1660, an extremely rare flintlock rocket discharger, circa 1800, the property of Messrs. W. W. Greener, Ltd. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ..., day of sale Monday, May 9th, 1960
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- Auktion: Sotheby and Co. <London> : 9.5.1960
- It is believed that this collection originated between 1860 and 1865, when the late William Wellington Greener purchased specimens of the current early breech-loading shotguns for the purpose of studying and improving design. His great success in that direction my account for the fact that he became a regular collector of weapons that now serve to show the development of firearms. Some of the arms are those he selected in 1881 to illustrate his best known work "The gun and its development", which ran to nine editions. Many of the pieces he acquired passed to his sons, Harry and Charles Edward, who continued to add to them. When Harry Greener died his brother devoted much time and energy to the collection, of which the first portion is now offered for sale.