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dont need one...top tier british gun makers like wr etc, always engraved their name and address on the top rib...pride an advertising, don ja no...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Just because it doesn’t have “the Westley top lever” doesn’t mean it wasn’t made by WR. As far as I’ve seen, all sidelock WR’s don’t have “the Westley top lever”. WR has the ability to make boxlocks without “the Westley top lever”.
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I have a double rifle, confirmed by WR that they made it, that has the same style of top lever as this one. I was told that some have this style top lever.
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Edd There is a gold name westly richards on gunsinternatonal with no rib marking.
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I have a 1960s era WR 12 gauge BLE with that style of top lever. It has the name engraved on the top rib and in gold letters on each side of the action. When I contacted WR about the gun, they confirmed that it was manufactured in house.
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sounds like 1960's wr guns no longer have an address on the rib... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westley_Richardsi would venture to say that post war wr guns like others, no longer have what the pre war guns..had...
Last edited by ed good; 11/16/21 04:39 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Photo of top rib marked "Westley Richards & Co. London Made of Whitworth Fluid Compressed Steel" Also, a photo of the action knuckle as requested. It is chocked IM/IM. Did Westley have a sales outlet in London? ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/wTwsHKy6/Wewtley-Rib.jpg) upload image anonymous![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Z5ZZf0Kn/Westley-action.jpg)
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It's an 1884 pat wr some speculation francotte made them but no proof it uses a yoke to cock both tumblers at once the piece that cocks it is right on the edge of the forend and action really nicely made guns same action as gold name wr
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Have you contacted Westley Richards for more information? Guns for export from Britain are required by law to be 'In Proof'. Nitro Proof here only became compulsory from 1925; prior to that it was optional. Unusual in that it doesn't cock like a convention Anson & Deeley action to say that it was a Westley Richards development. Any Patent information on the gun? Interesting! Lagopus.....
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I have a lovely Westley fancy back ble with the C bolt top lever, it utilizes the cocking plate the same way this one does. Yours looks like a Westley to me.
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