Thanks for your input.
That's for sure - but that was not the point of discussion here. The Belgians made some guns often with English sounding names such as Richards, Manton, Moore,etc ...and so forth obviously sort of re-creating English guns - The proof marks were recognizably from Belgium however - although they could contain an English look alike stamp here and there. This gun has -no name- anywhere. I believe that we were questioning wether or not whoever manafuctured this shotgun took the arduous time to produce a very high grade boxlock double in every respect and then simply stamped meaningless marks and words that remotely seem like English - If you believe that theory it means they got one spelled right "choke" and two spelled wrong "ful" and "stil" (four times), and then a crown with letters that does no match anything thusfar recognizable. According to some people on this forum this is characteristically Japanese (although there is not one single mark associated with Japan)further substantiated by the long series of numbers on the action flat assumed to be a Japanese export control number.
Last edited by LuisHunter1; 07/15/13 07:23 PM.
