Yes you can feel the etching. I have seen the fake ones, not this one and they ring better than my Krupp barrels. Lots of pitting but no dents or scratches, I may get lucky.I will send out to Dean Harris to have honed and checked out. Now that I have studied this mark does look like it could be a stylized I inside a M but I had never seen this one before obviously pre Hubertus. I can get use to looking down at this
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Has silver bands to match game birds, hel I could just hang it over the fireplace when not using this one and be perfectly happy.
Guess it’s pre 1891 with these marks?

Last edited by Jtplumb; 05/01/24 11:02 PM.