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Toby: Thank you for that, what a stunner! Love those Turners. Lots of folks find the hollowed stocks and the short forends unattractive but I love what they do for the guns; making them very light and ultra-quick. Only Turner did that to my knowledge, and they are over-the-top bird guns.
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That is a beautiful gun. Steve Bodio has a lovely Turner in .410. The stock isn't scalloped which would have been the gunmaker's equivalent of taking coal to Newcastle. (Well, it is an English gun...) Gil
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Lloyd, Toby, not to be outdone by the beautifully staged photo of the Thomas with gamebag and antler tipped cane, note the elegance and utility of my Home Depot Game Ladder's symmetry of lines. Tucked between the two boards is a stainless steel 10 meter ham radio antenna not currently in active use. The gun is a rather tubby 6 lbs., 1 oz. in comparison to Toby's svelte 5 lbs., 3 oz. It also was shot and hit by some Fuddian Nimrod during its 130+ years of existence. Just behind the stock's checkering and in the scalloped area lie three shot holes. If it could only talk it would probably say: "@#$%&!" Gil 
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If shotguns could talk, I wonder if they would curse their abusers in their language of origin? I'd only have English (American), Italian, and Finnish to deal with, but some of you would have safes that would resemble the Tower of Babel!
Mad musings aside, those are two very interesting guns; the Turner is also beautiful!
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Gotta love that round action on Toby's gun. Not to mention that beauty of a stick of wood.... Toby, any idea on date range it was made? Gil
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Gil, address dates from 1884, proof to before 1888 so 1884-87!
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Toby, mine has the up to 1888 proof mark with "Thomas Turner 19 Brook Street Bond Street London" on the rib. Does that pin mine down further date-wise? It's a Westley Richards action (as I've been told) with the A&D patents. Thanks. Gil
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