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I just picked up an EIG shotgun. I'm not familiar with Spanish shotguns other than that they can run the quality gamut from horrible to excellent. Does anyone out there know where the EIG falls?

Steve

Where on Kyrie�s makers list did you find their cartouche?
I don�t recall ever having seen EIG as representative of anything special, so I want to go out on a limb and say it�s probably just another Spanish tradename.

Even some Spanish guns with extra engraving were rough as a cobb inside and made of inferior materials.

Googling tells me garden grade gun. Before you ever even post a pic of its water table.

A photo of the marks on barrel and action flats would help us help you.
Are you confident the mark is not ELG in a Belgian proof?

Steve: EIG was the U.S. importer, in Miami.
If there is a NAC within a triangle on the action flats, the gun was made by Norberto Arizmendi y Cia, Eibar = Norica, which became Norica-Laurona-Zabala

Kyrie would know much more
https://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewforum.php?f=126

I think EIG was the USA importer (Eig Cutlery or Saul Eig ,,somewhere in Florida).
The guns were made by a number of small makers in Eibar, Spain. Most marked EIG-EIBAR-SPAIN

All this before the import markings as we know them today were required (1986)

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Drew types faster than I do!

You think EIG was kin to the English maker EGG ?

EIG is not, to the best of my knowledge, a Spanish shotgun maker. I suspect it is the marking a US importer wanted on the barrels of some small number of working man�s guns he had made in Spain for small dollars. But who knows?

When it comes to Spanish shotguns the marking on the top of the barrels is advertising. The manufacturing data (including the maker�s mark of the shop that built the gun) will be found on the water table and barrel flats. If you would care to put up photos that clearly show the markings on the water table and barrel flats we can likely figure out who the maker was and when it was made.

Doubtful.

Best,
Ted

Might be a Spanish cuzin...

Better chance of it being your cousin...

Best,
Ted