Our handmade guns and rifles are the best that can be had, a Westley Richards safari jacket is the best safari jacket you can buy and our travel luggage and sporting leather goods exceed even the most famous brands with regard to quality and the bespoke nature of their manufacture, here in England.
We bring Westley Richards style from outdoors to indoors with our homeware collection, introducing sporting-inspired objects, artworks and glassware to the living rooms, studies and offices of sportsmen of taste.
Sometimes a room needs a centre-piece, an object of distinctive style, beauty, craftsmanship and intrigue to bind together a decorative theme, start conversations or blend visual ideas.
Few objects are as well suited to a hunting inspired room as our Greggio Ostrich eggs with wax-cast silver bases. Each egg is unique, hand decorated in Italy and typically features fifty layers of paint. Designed to provide a different view from every side, our elephant themed egg morphs into an antique map of Africa and stands on a silver base of three bull elephants.
Changing the theme from elephant to crocodile, our large hand-painted dish featuring a portrait of one of these living dinosaurs makes an ideal serving dish for the dinner table or a receptacle for keys or pens in the office. Each one is uniquely hand-crafted and painted in Tunisia, exclusively for Westley Richards.
With Christmas approaching, so does the opportunity to raise a glass to absent friends and re-live the memories of hunting days gone-by, or toast a happily reunited family over the festive period.
The Wesley Richards hand engraved crystal whisky glass is the perfect Africa-themed container for your favourite spirit.
Available singly or as a set, featuring lion, rhino, buffalo elephant and leopard, or for the British or European hunter, roe buck and red stag, these are sure to become favourite drinking companions for decades to come.
Every glass needs a coaster to prevent it from damaging the table-top. What better companion to our whisky glasses than a set of stag or roe buck antler coasters, hand made especially for Westley Richards in England, using antler prints first published in Leipzig in 1891?
Treated with heat –resistant laquer, these beautiful coasters will protect your furniture from both hot and cold drinks and fit-in seamlessly with any sporting theme.
As it is with our established products, so it is with our new games range. We decided that if we were going to offer customers a poker set or a pack of cards, they would be the best that are available anywhere.
Our inspiration is the day-off and the evening. Many shooting vacations include some very necessary down-time. A day to break-up the routine of shoot days, a chance to restore the spirit and rest in anticipation of the next day in the field.
After dinner, the chance to switch to a board game or a traditional card game delivers a mental change that equates to rest and recuperation. Friendly competition and mental focus of a different kind also helps forge or cement friendships.
This is why a selection of traditional parlour games is a wonderful addition to any sporting lounge, drawing room or, in modern parlance ‘man cave’.
Originating in England and at least 1,600 years old, Backgammon is a table game of chance, skill and strategy, in which two players move their fifteen ‘men’ by throwing dice to determine the number of places. The first to empty the board of his ‘men’ wins.
The Westley Richards Backgammon set is beautifully created in large format with a buffalo-hide covering and a board surface of burr walnut and birds-eye maple. The ‘men’ (Americans call them ‘checkers’) are gilt and leather and there is subtle but distinctive Westley Richards branding on the case.
This is a real statement centre-piece of a Backgammon set, the like of which is rarely seen.
Poker originated in Persia centuries ago but it was the American West that popularized it in the 1860s and ‘70s. In the early 1900s it was introduced to the British aristocracy by an American diplomat and thereafter quickly spread around social circles in Europe.
The first World Series was conducted in Las Vegas in 1970 and today Poker is both a professional sport and a popular parlour game.
This exquisitely crafted Poker set is encased in a very gun-case-like, buffalo-hide covered box, lined with green baize. Made to impress, it makes a clear statement about quality and tradition.
Like our other games in this series, it was created in partnership with the renowned maker of traditional games, Geoffrey Parker and it is entirely hand-made in England from the fines materials available.
Dominos is widely believed to have originated in China as early as the 12th century. The game came to Europe by way of traders and explorers who encountered it on their travels.
In Britain, Dominos became a popular pub game in the 19th century and enduring social pastime, though there are serious tournaments for elite players held all around the world.
The earliest English reference to Bridge dates from 1886 and refers to it as ‘Russian Whist’. It became popular in the United States in the 1890s and morphed into the modern game of Contract Bridge through the efforts of Harold Sterling Vanderbilt in 1925. There are 93 articles regulating the game today.
Bridge is played by two pairs of players in opposition and is very much a game of skill, with complex rules. It became a staple of Victorian drawing rooms, where its combination of social gathering with intellectual challenge and competition proved an ideal mix that endured well into the 1950s. The evolution of Tournament Bridge in the 1940s cemented its enduring appeal.
The Westley Richards Bridge Set is encased in a hand-made buffalo skin covered wooden box with subtle Westley Richards embossing and magnetic lid closure, complete with playing cards, pencils and score cards.
Every one of these classic game sets represents the very best of its kind. Hand made in England in the Westley Richards tradition.
The Explora Blog is the world’s premier online journal for field sports enthusiasts, outdoor adventurers, conservationists and admirers of bespoke gunmaking, fine leather goods and timeless safari clothes. Each month Westley Richards publishes up to 8 blog posts on a range of topics with an avid readership totalling 500,000+ page views per year.
Blog post topics include: Finished custom rifles and bespoke guns leaving the Westley Richards factory; examples of heritage firearms with unique designs and celebrated owners like James Sutherland and Frederick Courteney Selous; the latest from the company pre-owned guns and rifles collection; interviews with the makers from the gun and leather factory; new season safari wear and country clothing; recent additions to our luxury travel bags and sporting leather goodsrange; time well spent out in the field; latest news in the sporting world; and key international conservation stories.
