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Was the restoration done in England? No. It was done here in the States. Why do you ask?
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Asking because the job is excellent and looks like a couple of my English restorations. Whomever did is is an excellent gunsmith.
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What beauty. Very nice "sympathetic restoration". Just curious, is proper pronounciation "lan-caster" or "lan-chester"?
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What beauty. Very nice "sympathetic restoration". Just curious, is proper pronounciation "lan-caster" or "lan-chester"? As far as I know, its "Lan-caster"
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Thank you for those pictures - that is a really beautiful gun.
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Dusty...Nice one Cyril!!! Sweet looking Gun there mate...all around lovely indeed But what is the EC 42GRS stamp ? Never seen that one before Shoot it kinda low n slow (ballistics, not your swing  & in good health cheers man Franc
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Dusty...Nice one Cyril!!! Sweet looking Gun there mate...all around lovely indeed But what is the EC 42GRS stamp ? Never seen that one before Shoot it kinda low n slow (ballistics, not your swing & in good health cheers man Franc Taking a guess here, hopefully someone will come along and correct me if I'm wrong....I believe the "EC 42 grs" stamp on the barrels was telling the owner that the gun was Nitro proofed with 42 grs of "E.C." nitro powder. From what I understand, a somewhat early nitro shotgun powder. 
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I believe you are correct on that EC stamp. EC was, as said, an early smokeless powder was was one of the bulk powders. A 3-dram black powder "Measure" of it was to weigh 42-grains, so it along with Schultz was referred to as a 42-grain bulk powder. A later powder by EC I believe, but not sure the exact designation of it was developed which only weighed 36-grains for a 3-dram measure.
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Thanks Miller ;-) Another mystery solved.
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Another interesting feature about these body action Lancasters..they have intercepting sears. Not mounted like you would normally see them in a A&D boxlock, but a completely different set up. Indeed, the insides of these guns are something else.
Would any of you have any clues as to who the Lancaster house engraver was??
Dustin
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