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The treatment of the wood near the raised sections behind the detonators on your gun is not typical for English guns. Further, your gun would appear to be missing the disc set strikers seen on the Webley.
It might be splitting hairs, but, not having identical features would point to a home produced action, rather than a sourced action, bought raw and finished.
I doubt we can know for sure with what we have to go on.

Best,
Ted

Ted, I actually agree with you in the sense that the shotgun in question seems to be of custom manufacture. Thanks for your observations and thoughtful comments.

Chapter 1 in the link below speaks of how small Japanese makers would copy a model of an English gun while at the same time borrowing features from other guns.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=zEV7CIBT...ons&f=false

Yes - indeed very informative - thanks for sharing. According to what he describes in the book, this shotgun seems to be of the earlier type (1920's / 1930's where it was a custom made order and handcrafted copy in the "English style". I don't see any features in this gun of anything else...or any other influences. Please correct me if I am wrong. Too bad the author does not go into more specific details about specific gun makers names and so forth...any idea if there is any literature out there elaborating on this

Ach! It ends with a mystery. What did Kanzuo Kanzawa tell him that was so interesting??

Good grief...just what we need - another riddle - must be due to the sub zero temps in Ontario; around here we seem to be suffering from similar maladies...

According to Geoffrey Boothroyd, lower-grade Webley guns were sold with no name on them...and in fact distributed to several countries either as complete finished guns, or in "the white" or just as barreled actions...; only with view specification marks - this shotgun mostly resembles the A&W 50 series in their 1914 catalog (a gun for the trade) with various configurations, grades and degrees of finish...