Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
Originally Posted By: Stan
W. Richards is to Westley Richards as a J. Manton is to Joseph Manton.

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There exist W. Richards guns that are English products, with English proof marks, that are superb guns. I just spent a long weekend in northern MN. with Lloyd3, who has a W.Richards boxlock ejector, built as a pair, originally.
He just has the one.

16 gauge, 5 lbs, 14 ozs, with nice, long steel barrels. He hammers the grouse with it. I think he said it was pre WWI, and that the company was in Liverpool.

The stuff with Belgian proofmarks are quite different than his.

Best,
Ted


I have a J. Manton 16 ga. percussion double that is very nice, and in very high condition as well.

Read closely, my comparison did not imply that W. Richards guns are necessarily poor quality, nor that J. Mantons are. It was a comparison in capitalizing on a name.

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Last edited by Stan; 10/19/15 07:05 AM.
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