A WESTLEY RICHARDS 1862 PATENT BAR-IN-WOOD 12-BORE (PINFIRE) HAMMER GUN BY GRIFFITHS & WORSLEY, NO. 1772

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A WESTLEY RICHARDS 1862 PATENT BAR-IN-WOOD 12-BORE (PINFIRE) HAMMER GUN BY GRIFFITHS & WORSLEY, NO. 1772
Toplever single-bite snap-action, serpentine fences, Manchester-style sidelock-plates, engraved with game-scenes within foliate-scrolls, well-figured stock (crab-joint damaged, with some restoration), iron butt-plate, rebrowned damascus barrels
30in. barrels, 2½in. chambers, Black Powder proof (1855 Rules), proof exemption

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The gun incorporates features from two Westley Richards's patents: No. 2506 of 1862 (single-bite top-grip snap-action and crab-joint stock) and No.2623 of 1864 (pivoted toplever). For information on Griffiths & Worsley and for an illustration of a very similar lockplate on a centre-fire gun by W. Griffith (Manchester), see G. Boothroyd, Shotguns and Gunsmiths, pp. 123-8

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