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The right click & copy xxx location is a basic way of finding out the actual address of an image, file or other site. Individual computers/hosts may also have some helper utilities/functions/buttons to assist you with that.

You can also use that drop down list to display the underlying image, which may be bigger or higher quality than what is available otherwise. Handy trick to get a better view of many things like eBay images, etc.

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Dave, who owns/runs this site provides our "free" use of it paid by donations and some advertising/sponsor revenue. he does that without collecting/selling your personal info.

A few more photos. As anyone seen this type of Gun before? Who might have made it, as it was made for Rawbone of Cape Town? [img:center]http://https://www.dropbox.com/pri/get/Guns/DSC_0092.JPG?

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Rawbone's business and family history is complex! Records show that he was Born in London and emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa in 1848,
From 1860-1870 records show that he returned to Birmingham,England were he established a gun making business.
Shortly following 1873-1877 he is residing in and ran a gun making business in Toronto, Canada. Records state that his sons operated the business units in Canada and South Africa till circa 1900.
The Feb; 11-17 1982 edition of the Shooting times, contains an article by the late Geoffrey Boothroyd covering a very fine Rawbone Hammer gun with the Toronto address, serial #2058,wich suggests a manufacturing date in the 1873-1877 time frame.

A nice Rawbone 10 bore appeared at a recent Julia's auction. Julia Rawbone

Thanks for the info Roy. The barrel says "made for W.Rawbone",so looks like it was made by someone else, probably in Birmingham.
The Julia Rawbone above is a beautiful gun, and was made by Westley Richards, so there could be a possibility that so was mine. But we will never know as there are no other marks on the gun except for Birmingham proof marks and the number 818 on the barrel and action. I will try to post more pictures, but getting this right seems to be eluding me.

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Guns?preview=DSC_0076.JPG
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Guns?preview=DSC_0080.JPG
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Guns?preview=DSC_0088.JPG
Thanks LeeS for explaining how and why things work the way they do. I hope that these pictures work.

Good to see you have gotten closer to the golden ring. your links seem to almost work but you need to go back into your dropbox account for these pictures and change the security settings so they are visible to everyone/non-members without a password. that should allow us to see them.

Final bit of bling is to surround each web address/URL (i.e. https://www.........JPG ) with beginning Image tag/bracket [img] and ending Image tag/bracket [/img] to display it embedded here. you can edit your post & add the begin/end img tags around each individual URL. You should be able to see the results as you are working on them with the preview button before submitting the change. You will also want to hit enter/new-line before &/or after each image to keep them in a tidy scrollable list.