bczrx,
Its hard to tell from the pics ( they won't blow up for me), if this is something special, or just a kinda gaudy gun.The wood looks very plain, the engraving looks pretty crude, & is the gold Gold , or "gold tone"?
But like I said, I can't see much detail.
Whatever it is, from the q's you ask, I think you should let a real gunsmith check it out in case you bugger it up...just my 2cents
cheers
franc
I have to agree- it is gaudy. But in a way that just 'called' to me, as being so, how shall I say it, 'indicative' of some groups focus on what 10 years ago was called 'bling' factor.
Like Saddam Hussain's Gold Browning Hi Power- but without the quality of engraving.
I don't mind your observation- I think it is accurate.
Yet, there is just something that called me to it as a sense of the exotic- to pair with my Star Model B, Star Model S Super, and Star Model F handguns, and my FR-8 Rifle: all a 'taste' of another cultures' relationship with firearms.
For more toned-down SxSs I can turn to my LC Smith Field [1947], Parker Trojan [1915] or a more ornate, but still less gaudy JP Sauer Model 60 Deluxe [around 1960].
These are all much less gaudy, and may actually work as well- but, again, this just spoke to me.
I'm sorry- I waited this long, but I can't help but think a gaudy shotgun is appropriate from the land of Antoni Gaudi, who gave us the church of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
