William & John Rigby
Gun Makers
Dublin
Freemans Journal 12th August 1839
Image courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive.
We are not informed as to whether this was Mr. William Rigby or his brother, John? who had decided to take this rifle into a public place, in the centre of Dublin, to try it! They were obviously not just trying the gun for ignition but range! At this time they enjoyed the ownership of a sixty feet shooting gallery beneath the premises at 24 Suffolk Street and this must have been condidered too short a range to try this East India bound rifle.
Please refer to our older post with respect to the Rigby family of gunmakers.
Also refer to: Great Irish Gunmakers Messr's Rigby 1760-1869 by D.H.L.Back.
Published by Historical Firearms 1992.
Dave Stroud ramrodantiques.co.uk
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