Been a little while but a lot has happened in the household. Folks up in years and ready for some help. Better for us to sell out than for them. Restaurant and food truck sold. Houses for sale. Looks like I finally get to retire this time. We will move to Naples to take care of the folks.
So I came up with an old percussion double barrel shotgun. I'll try to remember how to post photos but in the way of description, barrels are 32 and a half from extreme breach to the muzzle. Rabbit ear hammers. breaks down with a wedge in the forearm. Missing that wedge and the ramrod. Hammers hold at half cock but not at full cock. Nipples prolly won't come out. Mushroomed and corroded.
The shotgun is essentially complete in the major components. All of the furniture on the stock is present and in good shape. I am afraid to try to break the screws loose to take it apart to fix the sear. I can make a ramrod and make a wedge to hold the barrel in place.
I am estimating somewhere just before the civil war. I'd be glad for a more knowledgeable member to come back with a better guess on the age.
I can find marks on the hidden part of the barrel but absolutely nothing that indicates a maker. Just what appear to be stray proofer's marks. There is virtually no marking of any kind on either of the locks. No scrollwork. Nothing. And the metal is in pretty good shape, so I don't think there are any marks that are hidden by wear or corrosion. No checkering on the stock and no bezels on the wedge holes. There are no sling swivels on the shotgun.
I can get a probe through one of the nipples. The other one is prolly rusted shut. Dowel goes all the way to the breach so I am pretty sure it isn't loaded.
I traded a guy about three hundred worth of tools that I can't take along (If it isn't worth $2.00 a pound, it stays here.) for this shotgun, a Steven single shot Patent nr. 1794 is .32 long. and two junk revolvers. (Many of you know I like junk).
Any info or advice y'all can gimme on this shotgun would be much appreciated.
So I came up with an old percussion double barrel shotgun. I'll try to remember how to post photos but in the way of description, barrels are 32 and a half from extreme breach to the muzzle. Rabbit ear hammers. breaks down with a wedge in the forearm. Missing that wedge and the ramrod. Hammers hold at half cock but not at full cock. Nipples prolly won't come out. Mushroomed and corroded.
The shotgun is essentially complete in the major components. All of the furniture on the stock is present and in good shape. I am afraid to try to break the screws loose to take it apart to fix the sear. I can make a ramrod and make a wedge to hold the barrel in place.
I am estimating somewhere just before the civil war. I'd be glad for a more knowledgeable member to come back with a better guess on the age.
I can find marks on the hidden part of the barrel but absolutely nothing that indicates a maker. Just what appear to be stray proofer's marks. There is virtually no marking of any kind on either of the locks. No scrollwork. Nothing. And the metal is in pretty good shape, so I don't think there are any marks that are hidden by wear or corrosion. No checkering on the stock and no bezels on the wedge holes. There are no sling swivels on the shotgun.
I can get a probe through one of the nipples. The other one is prolly rusted shut. Dowel goes all the way to the breach so I am pretty sure it isn't loaded.
I traded a guy about three hundred worth of tools that I can't take along (If it isn't worth $2.00 a pound, it stays here.) for this shotgun, a Steven single shot Patent nr. 1794 is .32 long. and two junk revolvers. (Many of you know I like junk).
Any info or advice y'all can gimme on this shotgun would be much appreciated.