Originally Posted By: Daryl Hallquist
I think pictured earlier is a Richard Jeffery of Guildford. Dougall Lockfast action , actioned by J Wilkes. There were others with that "exact" last name.

Yes! Beautiful gun, and the real deal.

Spuriously named guns were enough of a problem that by the 1880s gunmakers collectively advertised and published the correct name and address formulations that should appear on their guns, to fight the scourge of mostly foreign counterfeits.

I will get to the subject of store-marked guns shortly, another source of confusing names.