I'm rekindling my admiration of the Superposed.
Here is a set of early Pre War Double Triggers.

51xx




33xxP



17xx

Very nice.

Nice guns Bob, but we need to work on your backdrop a bit...

Lovely stock, wood & form - 51XX.


Serbus,

Raimey
rse

What loveliness !!

What was it that PT Barnum said about the taste of the American public?

Nice guns to look at....

Very pretty wood.

Now, now. Play nice in the sandbox. They were good sellers in Europe, too. But, I know what you are saying, and there are others that agree with you (Bodio, for sure, and I don’t think McIntosh was a huge fan, either.)

I just prefer the run of the mill Beretta to the run of the mill Super. But, dang, that is some nice wood up there....

Any of those guns double single triggers, Bob? Front trigger will fire both barrels?

Best,
Ted

Good morning Ted.
#17xx is a Twin Single.
I think what I admire most about this set is that in my opinion these guns are anything but "Run of the mill".

Heres a combined 270 years worth of the Makers original horn buttplate without 1 worm hole.
That's remarkable.

The A-1 frame like your #51xx is so much more elegant than the plain frame or the later profiled frame. What great guns yours are.

A friend had a long tang, round knob, A-1 grade three barrel small gauge set that was made for his dad in Puerto Rico. It was brokered through Great Britain. It was the only such gun I had ever seen or heard of. Somehow, it was destroyed, metal and wood, and he contracted a very well known Browning restorer who restocked it in very incorrect style and color and did a mediocre job on the metal. I won't mention any names because I am not sure his information on the gunsmith was correct. The gun would need $4000 of work to correct the errors.

If the guns live where there are no worms, then you get no worm holes. Simple as that.

A buddy who has a nice collection of Darne guns also owns a 1961 30” barreled Superposed Lightning that I have shot a couple remarkable rounds (for me) of trap with.

But, I can’t wait to put the damn thing down when a round is over. It feels like there is too much of everything, everywhere, when I am holding it.

Best,
Ted