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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: William and John Rigby

From Graces Guide

236. RIGBY, WILLIAM and JOHN, 24 Suffolk Street, Dublin — Manufacturers.

Complete Indian or Highland outfit, consisting of a double rifle, double shot gun, and pair of extra barrels, forming, when required, twin double guns, with additional rifle barrels, and the locks, stocks, etc., all adjusted to one fit.

Double rifle with extra shot barrels, back-action locks, and single removable hair trigger, with cases and equipments. Bar-lock double rifle, single trigger, cases and equipments complete, with or without telescope attached. Double-shot gun, with bar locks attached. Double gun, back-action locks, and double rifle on improved plan, with cases complete. All constructed with continuous mountings, lift-out triggers, and solid slide-bolts.

Bar-lock double gun, without ramrod. Bar-lock single rifle and back-action; cases complete.

Double-rifle pistol for bison shooting, with single hair trigger and cases. Small horizontal double pistol and case; and various other pistols.

Improved six-shot revolving pistols, with detachable barrels, safety-bolt, and other improvements, in case, etc.

Cavalry officer's holster pistols in case.

Bar-lock single rifle, in unfinished state, prepared for adjusting in the field.

Different parts of a gun in preparatory states.

Specimens of bullet moulds, with improved mould, in which a solid bullet can be cast.

Single gun, back-action locks, in case.


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