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J .T. HARTWELL

SINGLE TRIGGER 12 BORE SIDE LOCK EJECTOR SHOTGUN

30" BARRELS

2 1/2" CHAMBERS

14 1/4" STOCK

WEIGHT 6.11 lb

IN A LIGHTWEIGHT BRADY LEATHER CASE

Trade Gun & Rifle Maker - Joseph Thomas Hartwell
5a West Chapel Street, Curzon Street
London, United Kingdom
Dates 1919-1925

Notes
Hartwell was born in 1880 in Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire. As a youngster he started work as a house boy at Campden House. (His Godparents were Viscount & Viscountess Campden, presumably because they belonged to a strong Catholic community). Eventually working for Major General Villiers Hatton, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in South China, he travelled with him to China, Hong Kong & Japan which was where he became interested in chow dogs that he later bred successfully. Taking puppies as far as the USA, he also sold one to the Queen's grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore. Both he and his wife became Crufts judges. He had three sons, Maurice and Howard (a Jesuit trainee who sadly drowned in the river Evenlode at Charlbury) by his wife, Maud whom he'd married in Hong Kong in 1905 and William, by Alice Taylor. The firm was recorded at 5a West Chapel Street from 1919 to 1923, but it seems to have taken over all of 5 West Chapel Street and traded for a couple of years longer. In 1925 J T Hartwell patented a ??? No. 248 (not in Crudgington & Baker). He seems to have tried to specialise in Over and Under shotguns. Found at auction: a 12 O/U single trigger Ser No 205, the rib signed ''Joseph Lang for J. T. Hartwell, 5 West Chapel Street, London W''; a 20 BLE Ser No 308; a BLE 12 Ser No 364; a .410 gun Ser No 391; a pair of 12 BLEs Ser Nos 1037/8; a 12 SLNE Ser No 14845 (probably a trade gun by W&S) all indicating a small run of guns made overall. Joseph Hartwell died in Sussex in 1961.

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