Wm & John Rigby. Gunmakers. Dublin

Wm & Jn Rigby

Gunmakers

Dublin

          A brace of 16 bore Police/Customs/Post Office Flintlock Pistols by Wm & Jn Rigby.
                                       Image courtesy of Thomas Del Mar Ltd.. 

26/6/2013

The above pistols marked under the 1843 Registration Act, WB 164 and WB 166 ( Waterford Borough). This possibly indicating the missing WB 165 could have been an associated blunderbuss?
                                                       This brace with 9.25" barrels.

Please refer to: D.H.L Back. Great Irish Gunmakers Messrs Rigby. 1760-1869.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk