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itb - Maker's names are like trademarks. A. Lancaster may not have been actively trading - as in a shop by that name when your gun was sold. However, you can bet someone held the name. "Lancaster" was famous and would have been more help to a gun than the name of some lessor known maker/shop owner/retailer. This was fairly common practice - consider that Thorne became Lancaster. There is no fakin' of the gun or the name, just an application that may slightly misguide modern buyers. Most Birmingham BL's bear the name of someone other than the actual maker. Keep in mind that Brit guns were made in a trade environment.
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I have used Occam's razor and subscribe to that philosophy. But before I applied Occam's prinicple of the explaination being the simplest one, I would exhaust all efforts in researching all Birmingham marks, before, during and after the 1887 proof revision coupled with info like the above post regarding markers(retailers) and makers(builders).
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Greg, based on the information provided, I think rebarreling is a possibility.
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Beech:
While rebarreling is certainly a possibility, I looked at your gun on the Hill Rod and Gun website and it does not look like either my boxlock or the A. Lancaster hammergun pictured here on the for sale board by Turnagain. Both his hammergun and my boxlock have A. Lancaster/ London on a scrolled banner on the side of the action, very similar if not identical engraving, and palm fronds engraved on the fences.
I am afraid I agree with Rocketman that you may not have an A. Lancaster. On the other hand, I am not sure that it matters a whit if you have a good functional bird gun that you paid a reasonable sum for. Just enjoy it!
Dr. P
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