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My 1878 (the year after the WWG advert you showed on the page before) Greener A&D has Anson and Deeley patent use number 1206, but bear in mind that they may have been issued to different makers in blocks of numbers and could well overlap when it comes to the completion of individual guns.

The number 2 is boldly engraved as shown on the action flat and also the fore-end iron. Graham Greener tells me it was the number 2 gun of a pair and they were then Greener’s Grade 3.

That would make it a 30 Guinea gun. It seems that A&D boxlock non ejectors were priced at something of a premium at the time of their introduction as being the “latest thing” compared to Greener’s pricing of similar guns in the 1930’s despite the loss in value of money in the intervening 50 years.

30 Guineas in 1878 would be the equivalent of 53 Guineas in 1938.

Last edited by Parabola; 06/29/23 04:42 AM.