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

SRH

Not quite; There's the spurious W Richards slapped on Belgian guns of dubious origin, meant to capitalise on a respected name, and the respected W Richards in its own right of Liverpool and Preston.

This is hardly JABC:

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