Gun History Certificates

Westley Richards

£200

Every owner of a Westley Richards gun has an interest in answering the question “when was it made?”. We retain a comprehensive but not complete record of practically every sporting gun that has passed through our workshops. Fill in the form below for your Westley Richards rifle or shotgun and our in-house historian will search the relevant ledgers to find its provenance and other information. If you are unable to find a serial number, we will not be able to identify the year of manufacture. If your serial number registers a date, we will have more detailed information available which can be pr

Westley Richards's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as WESTLEY RICHARDS AND COMPANY LIMITED, number 00439612. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Housed in our Birmingham factory, on the edge of the traditional Gun Quarter, Westley Richards gunmakers today work much as their grandfathers' generation did, using files, chisels and secret potions to turn walnut and steel into supreme hunting rifles and sporting shotguns." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
Foreign-owned
Majority ownership sits in Qatar, with Shiekh Sultan Jassim M J Al-Thani. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.