The Finspong Company Limited, Sweden. Manufacturers of War Material. Contractors to the Swedish and other European Governments.

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First and ?sole edition, no other copy traced. Handsome, highly detailed and profusely illustrated catalogue of the guns and projectiles of the Swedish Finspong Company. Loosely inserted printed letter from Ernst Bianco Westman offering "Swedish Extra Strong Cast Iron" from Aktiebolaget Ankarsrums Bruk, Westman had established a company in London in 1887 brokering specialist Swedish iron and steel. Finspong, based in the industrial city of Finspång in south eastern Sweden, was first established around 1580 as a royal ordnance manufactory. The business flourished for around 300 years under the management of the Walloon De Geer family, they were Sweden's largest exporter of guns from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. However, persisting with cast-iron artillery pieces they could not compete with Bofors cast-steel or the forged steel of Krupp, and were eventually bought out by Bofors in 1911. Exceptionally well-preserved late nineteenth-century arms manufacturer's promotional piece. Octavo (244 x 185 mm), pp. 37. With 14 pages of illustrations and diagram, 4 double-page tables of firing test results, other tables to text. Original red calf, bevelled boards, title to front board together with a large gilt device of a hooped gun, stylised foliate rolled panel to both boards, all edges gilt, red, gilt and black Spanish marble endpapers, blue silk page-marker. A few light scuffs, else very good indeed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 154461

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