Except for Harrington and Richardson, and later W C Scott, and maybe Webley and Scott, Westley Richards required the complete or almost complete gun made by others to have the guns brought to Westley Richards for inspection of WR patents. I assume WR applied it's number to the gun being inspected . If so, each maker using a patent would not have his own patent use numbering system.

Last edited by Daryl Hallquist; 03/26/23 01:25 PM.

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