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Tony: Fifteen Pounds Sterling in 1935. What a beautiful gun!
Best Regards, George
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Tony: Fifteen Pounds Sterling in 1935. What a beautiful gun!
Best Regards, George My thought as well: I expect it would cost more than that to get just the top lever engraved today! Congratulations on a marvelous find. Jim
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I know it's amazing isn't it 15. Well I paid quite a bit more! 
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Looks like one of the Gibbs & Pitt Patent actions, maybe a little earlier than 1890. Another part of gunmaking history.
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid,than open it and confirm.
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Is there any relationship/common patents between guns with this same basic lock plate shape? Think Clabrough and at least one other had the same basic shape?
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Seen quite a few of these over the years . I think it was in The British Shotgun vol 2 ,I read that these were made in considerable numbers for a variety of makers. The last one I saw was signed Cogswell and Harrison, but the stock was broken and the barrels bored way beyond usability[.012"wall]so it had to be scrapped.
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Seen quite a few of these over the years . I think it was in The British Shotgun vol 2 ,I read that these were made in considerable numbers for a variety of makers. The last one I saw was signed Cogswell and Harrison, but the stock was broken and the barrels bored way beyond usability[.012"wall]so it had to be scrapped.
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Oh man, what a find! I can't wait to see it after you work your magic on it.
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Crudgington and Baker Vol. 2 suggests that your gun is patent 284
of 1873 and yours is the "second model",the most successful of the
lever cocking designs.If you can give us the serial number or close
we can probably nail the date of manufacture. Terry
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