John Rigby &amp; Company
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John Rigby & Company （or John Rigby & Co. （Gunmakers） Ltd） is a gunmaking firm founded by John Rigby in 1775 in Dublin.
The company was established by the first John Rigby in Dublin, Ireland, apparently in 1775; his grandson, also John, opened a London branch in 1865; and Dublin operations had ceased by February 1897.
The company is now owned by Lüke & Ortmeier Gruppe and is based in Vauxhall, central London, under the supervision of Managing Director, Marc Newton.
John Rigby & Co.
builds rifles based on Mauser barrelled actions and double rifles based on its Rigby-Bissell 1879 patent rising-bite action.
Rigby also offers a serial-number research service; refurbishes vintage Rigbys for owners and collectors around the world; and maintains a Rigby collection in its showroom.
Rigby label from the early 1900s Some documents suggest the firm was established in 1735.
However, since the first John Rigby was born in 1758 in Dublin and entered the gunmaking trade there in 1775, Rigby today claims that as its founding date.
（If John Rigby took over another gunmaking house, he would have inherited its founding date, in which case 1735 could be valid.） The surviving business ledgers date from 1781 and show that by then John Rigby was making,
under his own name, shotguns, rifles, muskets, spring guns, carbines, blunderbusses and pistols to clients' specifications and a wide range of prices.
Rigby was nearly bankrupted during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 when the government seized the arms on his premises - those belonging to the firm and to its clients - presumably to keep them out of the reach of rebels.
However, by 1810 （if not sooner） John Rigby had rebuilt his business and, in addition to sporting guns, was making, updati...