Lagopus,

We know from the Greener records that mine was bought in for 35/- from “Thomas” who was almost certainly the Patentee John Thomas .

He had been for 8 years work’s manager at Tipping and Lawden but by 1880 was trading in his own name 66 and 67 Slaney Street, Birmingham as a maker to the trade as set out in his advert reproduced in Vol. 2 of Crudginton and Baker.

Mine was clearly extensively re-worked by Charles Greener for his daughter May and almost certainly re-stocked ( I don’t think that even in 1882 35/- bought you walnut that nice in a Rook rifle).

What Greener’s records do not show was whether at 35/- the batch of .380 Rook rifles arrived as barrelled actions or substantially finished?