Thanks TW for your comment. Comparatively -and in my humble opinion -this gun's engraving quality is on the same level as many other English and Continental guns that I fondled smile - in some areas the scroll is indeed larger and more open but even within that that are sections of well executed minute detail...; there seems to be a general concensus that this was clearly manufactured prior to WWII but I would venture further and propose that it is more toward earlier twentieth century...any thoughts on this?
I looked around and found this classic William Evans and the similarities are obvious - observe how the splinter fore-end has the same characteristics aesthetically and mechanically except that it is an ejector and my gun is an extractor. The two top photos are the W. Evans.







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