If the SN is 4297, and if this is an "Ideal" then it would date to about 1889 - early 1890: - but then how to account for being proofed for PJ?

"(Per) official document furnished by the head office of the manufacturer on page 45 of the 1898 catalogue. Here below is the total production of the IDEAL shotguns for the first 10 years (11,732 shotguns produce in total):

1887: 630
1888: 1,152
1889: 1,925
1890: 2,713....."

Chart posted on p. 10 of the "Dating early French Shotguns"

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