W. J. Jeffery was, in practice, a retailer. It is now known that most of the double rifles were built by Harry Leonard and most of the shotguns are said to have come from John Saunders, both Birmingham firms. Jeffery offered everything from the most utilitarian boxlocks to the very best stocked-to-the-fences London pattern sidelocks. I've never handled a Jeffery gun that wasn't at least solid quality. I handled a Jeffery best sidelock 12 bore a few years ago that was as good as anybody's.

Holland & Holland sold the Jeffery records and name some years ago and the buyer leased the rights to the Jeffery name to J. Roberts & Son, London (former owners of J. Rigby & Co.) in 2000. If I got the story straight, the buyer was an American and the records are here in the US. You're supposed to access the records through J. Roberts & Son, but a recent request to them was unanswered.
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