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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2845 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 5:42pm	Print Post
	On another forum, this picture was posted. The person who posted said this is a photo of an inscription on the barrel of a Rigby muzzle loading target rifle from the 1870s. He was looking for a translation. The only educated guess was Amharic. My thoughts are: 1. Rigby ML target rifles were not mass produced. They were expensive. 2. Somewhere, there is a start on a list of initial purchasers. 3. The purchasers were wealthy and something of the history of many of them can probably be worked out. Anyone want to jump on this?


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Online Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16271 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #1 - Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 7:22pm	Print Post
	Looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics to me!

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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2845 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #2 - Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 8:28pm	Print Post
	Another suggestion said maybe the photograph was upside down. So maybe the original owner spent some time in India. That's an easier sell than Amharic.


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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2845 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #3 - Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 9:32pm	Print Post
	Sent the photos off to my daughter-in-law from India. She speaks 6 languages. Maybe she will recognize this stuff.


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bluesman Full Member Offline Posts: 192 Location: Paradise, California Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #4 - Mar 24^th, 2021 at 12:44am	Print Post
	Could be Thai ( Siamese ), or a related language, Lao or Malay.


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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2845 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #5 - Mar 24^th, 2021 at 3:45pm	Print Post
	My Indian daughter-in-law reported back. The inverted photo is the correct one, the original is upside down. It is an Indian script. She says the middle two symbols mean "Raja" and "Sikh". The original purchaser probably spent some time in British India. What does that add to the value? It's a big clue toward identifying the original purchaser.


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Grumpy gumpy Full Member Offline Posts: 214 Location: australia Joined: Jul 6^th, 2016	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #6 - Mar 24^th, 2021 at 5:59pm	Print Post
	You could email Rigby’s and ask them? I think there is a small fee for any information provided Gumpy


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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2845 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #7 - Mar 24^th, 2021 at 6:17pm	Print Post
	The other forum reported that the original purchaser was "Col. J. Kinlock". I'm searching on Ancestry, but nothing solid so far. My guess is that it was purchased by one D. J. Kinloch, an Army Colonel on the retired list of the British East India Company in Bombay. He had been in India since 1844, was probably about 50 years old when he bought the rifle.
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TRowe Full Member Offline Posts: 178 Joined: Sep 4^th, 2017	Re: Rigby Muzzle Loading Target Rifle from 1870s Reply #8 - Apr 20^th, 2021 at 9:34pm	Print Post
	There was an active British target shooting group in India. A number of the Indian nobility also ordered target rifles and these markings may indicate that this rifle was in the armory of one of them. A number of Gibbs rifles, as well as other makers, some of which were match rifles have turned up with similar markings. The Brits took their sports with them and some still remain like cricket.


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