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Rose Brothers Hales Owen,1860-1892 was an important manufacturer of gun barrels. The company held several British patents related to barrel and tube making. One was granted for making twist barrels by machinery, British patent #13299 of 24th Oct 1850. Barrels made by Rose Brothers are often marked; "Roses Patent" or just "Roses."
Hales Owen is one of the towns in the area adjacent to Birmingham known as the Black Country. Other towns in the black country,included Wolverhampton, Darlaston, Willenhall, Wednesbury.These towns were the prime source of materials and components used by the Birmingham gun makers. The area was known as the black country because during the industrial revolution it was continually enveloped in smoke from the hundreds if not thousands of industries that used coal fired furnaces/boilers as their prime source of heat energy.
