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MAXIM HIRAM S.: (1840-1916) - MAXIM HIRAM S.: (1840-1916) American-born British inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Dark ink signature ( ´Hiram S. Maxim´ ) to the oblong 12mo upper portion of a piece of printed stationery bearing the address of 18 Queen´s Gate Place, London. Some light age wear and wrinkling and with traces of former mounting to the verso, G