William Ford guns appear regularly. As a barrel specialist he also re-barrelled a lot of guns. I had a Westley Richards with and interesting extra set of barrels by Ford, which were 24 1/4 inches long, with a humped rib.
There is a William Ford hammer gun in Holt's next sale in 32 bore, cased and beautiful and very tiny. I don't know how to post photos here so I'll put one on the Auction News page of my website.
The back action sidelock in the original photo looks very worn and soft but was clearly a very good quality gun in its day. Engraving is very unusual and could have been made for an overseas order.
