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I'm selling on Gunbroker a few doubles of mine and my late uncle. Since these are all starting as $0.01 bids with no reserve, I'm paying Dave $12 each cause they'll all sell. Message me if you have questions and I'll try to help. I'd highly recommend also messaging the the seller I'm using on Gunbroker, Lock Stock and Barrel, as they are technically the seller and would resolve a problem if there was one. They have an A+ rating with 12,000 positive reviews. (I'm trying Lock, Stock & Barrel out for this because they can take a credit card for payment and they do all the photos and descriptions and shipping.) See Gunbroker using the links below for descriptions, photos and terms.

1) Westley Richards 10 gauge bar-in-wood double. 32" barrels. A transitional pieces that can shoot either centerfire or pinfire shells. Kind of neat. Crisp engraving on the lock work. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/924556520

2) Webley & Scott model 700 12 gauge 2 1/2" shells, factory single trigger. Excellent condition but has a professional wood stock extension with checkered butt. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/924627593

3) Ithaca Flues 28 gauge. Nice but not all original. I don't know if it could be restored but we all know 28 gauge Flues aren't common. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/924760578

4) Lefever 410. Professionally restocked with some pretty wood. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/924541587

The first two were mine and bottom two my uncles. He gave me some nice guns before he passed and I'm keeping those to remember him. The Flues and Lefever don't speak to me and I'm not shooting the other two, so they'll all sell when the auctions end on 3/6.

was it your uncle that did the hacksaw number on the grade 1 28 ga. thaca? Damn shame, that operation-and on any gun, even a Crescent or a Hopkins & Allen. RWTF

It would be a good gun for a person who follows a good pointing dog!! BTW, in regards to the comment on the hacksaw job to the barrels: is it a known fact that this gun did not come from the factory with 26.25 inch barrels??

Can someone explain to me the barrels being fixed to the receiver thus making the it impossible to completely disassemble the gun? Method? Logic behind doing such a thing to a gun?

My uncle didn't do any gunsmithing on his (and no cracks about what was done to that Flues not being gunsmithing!). The initials on the receiver aren't his or his dad's. I think he said they had both used a gunsmith near Confluence PA for stocking jobs. This would have been in the 60s or early 70s most likely.

This was listed as a consignment through Lock Stock & Barrel on Gunbroker in part to have someone else figure how to describe what was going on with it. I do not know why the gun won't come apart. It is not visibly modified mechanically.

I don't think so (see above). I agree with your sentiment. Even if he did, I'd forgive him even if he hadn't given me a first gen Colt frontier six shooter from 1908. (He generally had solid taste in guns...perhaps a reminder to all of us to sell off our ugly guns before we leave this world)

I did, twice, and got a complete runaround both times with no real answer. That was quite odd for them. I have bought numerous guns through them before and they were always completely up front. This time not so much. I thought at the right price it could be repaired as to function and make a nice knockabout 28 ga. Whatever was done to it can likely be accessssed and replaced by taking off all the bottom metal, but I decided it wasm't worth the effort to bid. It was purchased after many bids by a large GB dealer for I thought a ridiculous price given the issues. He has nearly 700 items listed and many of them have been for sale for longer than I can remember. It will be interesting to see if he displays it with the solid tablecloth with the esoteric gun related items or the green plaid one.

I have been looking a pre-WW11 Stoeger marked 12 gauge Sauer double-and it evidences the sAME (BARRELS FROZEN TIGHT TO the receiver) scenario as does this 28 bore Flues> Wonder what the problem could be? RWTF

RWTF, will the barrels open but not come apart from the receiver? Or not open at all. (The Ithaca would open, but not come apart.)

BTW, all these auctions have ended and Dave has been paid $48

Remove the forend, open the bbls,,but the bbls won't rotate far enough to be able to separte them from the frame...is that what's going on with the 28ga?

If it is,,it is likely the cocking arm that is not retracting when the forend is removed.
On a Flues model,,when the forend is removed, the spring loaded cocking arm retracts it's cocking 'foot' from underneath the hammer extensions.
By that spring loaded arm retracting and clearing the hammers,, that is what allows the bbls to rotate and completely pivot off of the frame.

If the spring loaded feature does not work with the forend removed,,the bbls will only rotate down as far as they normally do in opening the during shooting use (cocking the hammer(s) and then stop.
The cocking arm is caught under the hammer extensions. The bbls cannot rotate any further to unlock them from the frame.