A few pics of my Meriden 12 gauge hammerless. My rabbit hunting buddy has some others of the gun with some bunnies and I'll try to get them from him. Silvers
Silvers-
It would appear you and I are the only Meriden shooters. You were correct, the barrels on your hammerless look identical to the ones on my hammer gun. You gun is in very good condition, which I suspect makes it a bit of a rare thing. I don't think Meriden was in business very long and most of their shotguns were marketed to folks very likely to give them hard use. The hand guard on my shotgun does not use the latch as does yours. The 1908 Sears catalog was extolling the virtues of the latch-less fore-end, so it makes me wonder if yours was either a very early gun or a later one (either the latch-less for end was in fact an improvement, or it was later found to be lacking).
Thanks for sharing those great photos!
Doug