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Having said that, .410 doubles go pretty well at Holts these days.
With 28” barrels and a 15” stock I would not be surprised if the Westley Richards goes well over top estimate.
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bush, interesting...looks very much like a bigger and heavier version of the 410 i am selling...
stan may like this one...
betcha it goes for a pretty penny, plus the cost of getting it here...
nice to know that the holbrook gun may have been made by wr...
i was figuring webley & scott...
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waiting for someone to suggest that because admiral holbrook was a sailor who spent alotta time in tropical waters, that the wood on this cool little gun has been eaten up by sea worms and that it may well disintegrate when fired...
and then there is the barrel ringing hoax to consider...
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There would be no reason for an admiral th to take his child's gun sailing
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And no particular reason to assume that the Army and Navy gun might have been made by Westley Richards (unless the A&N records so indicate).
Mind you, as the gun at Holts has a T prefix to the serial number Westley Richards probably had it built by someone else in the Birmingham trade.
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para, did a side by side image comparison....man, they shore do look similar to me...course the wr gun looks redone, whereas the a&n gun looks all original with no evidence of major rework...
however, it it my understanding that because w&s made so many guns for the a&n store, it is more likely to be a w&s product?
an then could wr have contracted with w&s for a lot of these little guns?
making then both indeed products of the w&s factory?
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battle#63150906/15/23 09:56 PM
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nh mostly
at 5/5 pounds, both these guns may have very thin barrel walls, making them marginally safe for modern field loads...
do you have ability to provide barrel wall thickness measurements?
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battle#63156306/16/23 06:00 PM
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dis hole see nar rio dont seem like hits headin in thu di rection uv ah deal...
good luck sellin yo gons...
an let the buyer beware...
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That's a mighty light gun at just over 4 lbs.. According to a resident expert (see above) it may have thin walls and would be marginally safe for modern field loads. "an let the buyer beware.."
It's a long road that doesn't turn...And this road is barely 2 weeks old.
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gls, your post above seems convoluted...
pls do not trash this thread...
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gls, your post above seems convoluted...
pls do not trash this thread... Perhaps you shouldn't have trashed battle's thread in his effort to sell his gun two weeks ago. Your own words are what you consider to be trash. I have never criticized a man's efforts to sell his gun like you did two weeks ago. Gil
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