Adams & Co appear to have come out of Robert Adams.
robert Adams was an important inventor, well known for pistols as wellas shotguns. I have a 16-bore bar-in wood that is built as a centre-fire using what was a pin-fire action.
This incorporates a Robert Adams patent for an inert under-lever with a push-button release.
The Damascus barrels on my gun are thin, the fences are shallow and the action looks rather fragile, as does the bolting system. It was the early 1860s and the locking mechanism was not fully understood at the time.
I don't shoot it but it has beautiful lines and the underlever is not offensive, is beautifully made and the gun elegant and well balanced.
I have another Adams & Co - an 1885 back-action hammer gun of good quality with the Finsbury Pavement address and Stanton rebounding locks. Adams output appears to be generally of high quality.
