OH;

I cannot (even with the aid of enlargement) see any indication that these barrels were ever originally proofed in London. The London "arm"mark may be under the strikeover near the breech end of the flats, though.

Not withstanding this issue, the action of this gun is a "peninsula lock" versus the Purdey "island lock" of the time, which causes one to consider that that the action of this gun was a Birmingham made--not London; and consequently worth a fraction of the cost of a genuine Purdey island lock gun.

Purdey's comments on this gun will be interesting.

Whatever it origin turns out to be, it is not one to add to my stable.