Nice piece Jeff!
Those pics are a nice study in evenness of patina. The readers of the restoration thread should look at these and see the evenness of wear. The way each part of the shotgun blends agewise with the piece next to it. Even the shrinkage at the stock head looks just right for 100+ years.
I'm curious about where it balances.
If a straight stock is so rare, and this one has a whiteline pad, if it was converted the balance would be way forward. I can't see if the engraving on the trigger guard, or it's inletting, was done by the same person as the action or forend.
I think it's beautiful.
