doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Interesting English boxlock ejector at Hallowell

I have a Charles Boswell pigeon/waterfowl gun that is very simaler to this. Fences almost the same and the engaving looks like it could have been done by the same person or "school". The barrels on my gun are actually stamped with the BSA logo. The proofs and address put my gun somewhere around 1913.

I think Gunman could be on the right track. Nothing to stop BSA selling a gun 'in the white' to be finished elsewhere and not that unusual to see a 'no name' gun waiting to sell into the Trade to be finished off and a name applied later. The 1 1/4 ounce mark indicates 2 3/4" chambers. That is the problem when trying to research English guns in that the name on the gun may be nothing to do with who actually made it. I have a couple with names on but no information in any listings on that name. Lagopus.....

Well done, Gunman, you beat me to it. I wanted to look at the markings on the bottom of my BSA BLE for comparison before posting.

I noticed that the chopper lump barrels did not have a dividing line down the middle, and if they are dovetailed (the photo is not very clear)they are certainly BSA Jessops Fluid Steel chopper lump barrels.

Those BSA guns, although machine made, were built with first class materials and one taken in the white to a good action filer and then engraved would produce a lovely gun.

I had a bsa deluxe ejector never used it much before it went down the road nice looking gun though.

I'd been wondering about the lack of a visible joint line on the lumps.

And I'm still trying to imagine the motive for and the circumstances under which such a shotgun would receive such an engraving job, not to mention pretty nice wood, yet not have any identifying marks on it. Sort of like spotting an old Rolex Explorer wristwatch with no text on the dial save the tiny word 'SWISS.' Only those who know, would know.

My inner storyteller will be musing about this one for years.

The customer might not have wanted a name on it.

Best,
Ted

That would strike me as being rather avant-garde, iconoclastic thinking for the era it was proofed in. I love it. I own a few garments and messenger bags from a cutting-edge high performance technical streetwear company that are either completely logo-free on the outside, or feature small Velcro logo patches one can opt to not apply. Real secret-handshake stuff.

I like this shotgun even more, now, Mister Schefelbein. For the story it's quietly refusing to tell us.

Write the check and give us a full report

Heh. Willingly. I simply hope you'll be around fifteen years from now when I update my report to describe what it's been like to live my twilight years shooting casual Skeet twice per week with a thoroughly enigmatic side-by-side English boxlock while subsisting on packaged ramen, bog roll pilfered from construction site Port-A-Loos, and twice-used coffee grounds. And sleeping in my Trabant shooting brake.

Hrm.

Maybe I should ask him if he'll take $6500.

This is a test of "buy the gun, not the name" philosophy.

It is a nice gun and, obviously, some effort has been expended to balance it, but it's too heavy for my purposes.