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Mark,
It has Birmingham Proof marks so it was probably made in Birmingham, although as Liverpool never had a Proof House that is not entirely conclusive.
The carving is not dissimilar to guns made by William Ford in Birmingham.
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I had read carswell purchased at least two other gun maker?so could his shop made the gun and had it Birmingham proofed ?
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Yes, E. & G. Higham and Hooton and Jones, but Carswell acquired them during or after the First World War when the gun trade was declining he may have just bought the goodwill and the rights to the names rather than acquiring premises or any workshops.
I don’t know enough about the Liverpool gun trade to have any idea as to what extent (if at all) guns were made in Liverpool.
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It would seem that a big port city would have gun makers .did w Richards make there own guns?
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Hooten was owned by w Richards after 1924 so it was probably in name only with carswell buying it.
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