Rare and stunning, a good friend is delighted to have acquired this jewel. One of the very few guns in my life that I regret selling, this gun is a ripper!

very cool gun. It is interesting that the Rigby=Bissell rising bite was patented a full 10 years later then this Abbey-Foster rising bite.

How long are the barrels great looking gun

Can anyone identify the type of damascus on the Rigby?

DH-

What's the gun? Is it a Daly?

I think this is the patent:
Abbey & Foster breech-loading, top-fastening shotgun, patent of April 25, 1871, No. 114,081

Any idea if it was ever patented in the UK?

BTW:

I did some searching and found myself a ways down on this page:

https://www.germanhuntingguns.com/archives/archive-lindner/

It mentions that in The Gun and its Developement Greener wrote about how Rigby revived the Abbey breech-loader patent for Rigby hammerless guns.


Also, looks like all this has already been discussed here:

https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=431255&page=8


OWD

the gun I pictured is an Abbey