I just went back to the Oct. 2010 issue of the American Rifleman to look at The Bell/Ruark/Selby Rigby and noticed something strange. The rifle pictured throughout the article has a different serial number than the rifle on the Westley Richards invoice which was apparently the receipt for Bell's rifle when Ruark bought it while in London. Any thoughts?
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The rifle does have both Mauser and Rigby numbers - the London Westley office was just the broker for the sale of Bell's rifles so they wouldn't have put any numbers on the rifle itself. Perhaps the receipt had a W.R. stocking number instead of a serial but I wouldn't think so.
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