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Grip plates were normally of hard rubber cut with an overall chequered pattern and shaped to suit an additional lump at the top of the grip.

The F&W British Bull-Dog appeared in the 1886 catalogues of New York gun dealers G. W. Caflin and John P. Moore‘s Sons and continued to be offered in the J. H. Johnston gun lists of 1888.

Due to the increasing popularity of hinged frame self-extracting models on the American market, most solid frame revolvers had become somewhat outdated and, as a result, prices for the little Bull Dog were being seriously reduced. In the 1889 catalogue of Folsom, it was offered at just $2.77. Despite this, Clabrough & Golcher of San Francisco continued to list the Forehand & Wadsworth British Bull-Dog in 1890, while J. H. Johnston also listed it in their 1895 catalogue.

Forehand & Wadsworth’s Firearms Manufactory continued in operation at Worcester until 1890, when Henry Wadsworth retired from the partnership and the business was reformed as the Forehand Arms Company. Concurrent with manufacture of the BRITISH BULLDOG, a similar type of revolver was produced by Forehand & Wadsworth during the 1880s and marked with the alternative title of INDIAN BULLDOG. (Note: This time the latter name was without hyphen.) Both these American models followed much the same con-figuration as those made in Belgium by Joseph Tholet.