Around 1962-3 I spotted in Rowland Watson's place a nice sidelock Coggie that was originally this odd gauge, but had been re-barreled by him as a 12 bore. The original tube set had been chambered out to 12 bore too, as Watson said, "just for a bit of fun" and passed Proof.
I couldn't afford it at the time but my late Uncle Geoff picked it up, cased, for a 100. After he passed on, mad Aunty Norah disposed of it; probably for a balloon and two goldfish off the rag 'n bone man.
It made up into a really nice snakey gun, I recall him shooting a lovely bag of woodpigeon on an evening flight.
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