I keep finding references to "W W Forsyth" being listed in an 1874 P Powell & Son catalog. There's some old auctions of a few of the guns still up, but lacking pictures. Since this is some 20 years after Alex. Forsyth and "Forsyth & Co." ceased operations, it possibly indicates a link with Thom. Forsyth, the possible Ironmonger. However, There's also a W.W. marked Sidelever Pinfire listed on an old auction, possibly indicating they'd been around for some time. (1860s manufacturing time frame?) I wonder if the initials "W W" were used with spurious intent, due to the similarity to Greener's tag-line.

Of course the seller may not have even been named Forsyth. It may have been an in-house trade name simply marked on their "Birmingham-trade" guns.


I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.