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A similar gun, No. 10106, built on the same pattern and at approximately the same time, was built for the Prince of Wales in 1863
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A Westley Richards 1862 Patent 12-bore (pin-fire) bar-in-wood hammer gun by Westley Richards, No. 10308
Patent pull-back toplever-opening action, the sidelocks with dolphin hammers, best bold foliate-scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, boldly-figured stock, the bar-in-wood extending to cover the forend-hinge in a crab-joint, with butt-plate, the damascus barrels with game-rib
Weight 7lb., 14in. pull, 30in. barrels, proof exempt
Patent pull-back toplever-opening action, the sidelocks with dolphin hammers, best bold foliate-scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, boldly-figured stock, the bar-in-wood extending to cover the forend-hinge in a crab-joint, with butt-plate, the damascus barrels with game-rib
Weight 7lb., 14in. pull, 30in. barrels, proof exempt