That stinks.

I wonder who sleeved it - maybe it was done over here? Does anyone in the states offer seamless sleeving?

You're lucky your guy caught it.

In the past, I know some dealers used seamless sleeving as a way clean up bbls and pass them off as original. This was before seamless sleeving was common, so most people were fooled by it. I bet it fooled (and fools) a lot of 'smiths.

BTW: another shady thing some dealers would do was re-bbl a 16g down to a 20g, then pass it off as original - especially British O/Us and top-tier stuff like Purdey SxSs. Of course, this was back when 16s were cheap and maker's records were hard to access.

OWD

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