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Old 06-29-2009, 12:08 AM
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Orbea also had a contract to supply a fair number of .455 top break revolvers for the UK during WW1.

They were supposedly one of the better makers of Spanish revolvers and were in business a long time. Some of their revolvers saw action in the American Civil War.

Apparently they were one of the casualties of the later Spanish Civil War though, and didn't resume production after Franco took over.
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