doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Need some help identifying the maker of this 28g

It's a 28 gauge sidelock 30" full/modified absolutely no info on barrels or receiver other than the proof marks in the picture.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp202...58%20PM.bmp.jpg

ARMAS "LAMBER" or
GREGORIO ZABALA

From a web page on Spanish makers trademarks.

http://www.shotguns.se/html/spanish_trademarks.html

Don't know if that's correct, it's just what a search led to.

"Lamber is spelled with an "n" as in Lanber. They went out of business a few years ago.

Appears to be a different firm.

As discussed here:

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=412303

When I was in college in the '60s I visited a gunshop in Macon,GA looking for something or other. They had a barrel completely filled with .410 and 28ga Spanish doubles priced at something like $75.

I picked a .410 out and used it awhile. Trigger pulls must have been 14lbs and I couldn't hit a dove off a telephone line with it.

I ended up giving it away and shied off Spanish fire for years. I now have a couple that seem alright.

My point is that if the gun in question is of the age I referred to it may be the same junk I found in that barrel...Geo

When it comes to Spanish shotguns, older doesn't necessarily mean worse quality. I recently picked up a V. Sarasqueta sidelock 28ga imported by Stoeger back in the 50's. Bushed firing pins, chopper lump barrels, fine checkering. Used but not abused. She weighs just under 6#; triggers trip at 5#. That's a little heavier than ideal, but they're also very crisp, don't cause me any hiccups when I'm shooting clay birds. I'm going to leave them alone.

I can't get the photobucket link to work for anything other than the above photo. Nothing on the barrel flats? That's very odd.