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Hello. I'd suspect that Whitehouse & So were a local business...they may like Broughton & Jones of Leicester have been ironmongers...who purchased ready made guns from the trade that were engraved with their name. Webley for certain made guns for Evans, owned (at one tome Lang) and as late as but a few decades ago you could, just, still see Webley guns made for the likes of many of the famous Norfolk gunmakers. Or they could be like Holland was...tobacconists who sold guns? I searchched "whitehouse rutland". Have a look here in this Rutland trade directory:

https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/api/collection/p15407coll9/id/20839/download

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9 hours ago, enfieldspares said:

Hello. I'd suspect that Whitehouse & So were a local business...they may like Broughton & Jones of Leicester have been ironmongers...who purchased ready made guns from the trade that were engraved with their name. Webley for certain made guns for Evans, owned (at one tome Lang) and as late as but a few decades ago you could, just, still see Webley guns made for the likes of many of the famous Norfolk gunmakers. Or they could be like Holland was...tobacconists who sold guns? I searchched "whitehouse rutland". Have a look here in this Rutland trade directory:

https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/api/collection/p15407coll9/id/20839/download

Whitehouse.jpg

Very interesting. Thank you. I suspect he was the local town gun shop and bought in Birmingham made guns. 

24 minutes ago, Hector Vector said:

There are passing references to Whitehouse and Son in volumes 2 and 3 of Nigel Brown's British Gunmakers. Only address information really, no serial number data or suchlike.

Most kind, as said, they were probably a provincial gun shop supplied by Birmingham 

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