Reading the description on Lewis Drake's site explains the puzzlement. It has a modern steel replacement barrel, by Mike Ehinger, a maker of reproduction flintlock, among other things. No reason to think a Westley Richards gun CAME with fake barrels, originally. I've had only one, my first old hammer gun, a very cheap Belgian clunker. The pattern continued from one barrel, across the under rib and around the other barrel. Looked like it had been painted on with a whisk broom.

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