Originally Posted By: HWK

I have a W. Richards hammer gun, unusually good quality. What I find odd, is that the top rib is marked London, not Liverpool. Could this be a gun made for the US market?


I'd say you are correct.

A London address was more desirable. That's why some makers had both London and Birmingham locations, to put London as the address. The proofs usually tell where it was made, but some guns were made in Birmingham and then sent to London to be proofed.

I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.