Hi, I recently inherited two weapons that I havent been able to find out about. The first is a side by side external hammer damascus ( maybe) barreled I. Hollis & sons. 12 bore. On the under side of the barrels is 41604 and a diamond with 12 & C inside it. There are several other marks that I can't describe. One of the distinguishing marks is a brass insert round, that is set into the under side of the stock. It's about 1/2" oval and I'm thinking that it might be a balance weight of some sort? It is slightly off center. There is some scrolled ingraving, hand done, the rib between the barrels has a herring bone pattern.
I've been able to find a little about I. Hollis and sons, but not much about what guns they produced.
The other gun that I recieved is a 1873 Winchester cal.38 What it has that I haven't seen a lot of is a round barrel. It has Kings improvement on the reciever and under the lever is 1547 32A .
There is a little safe that turns about the lever. The butt plate has an opening for what I assume to be cleaning equipment?
The blueing is almost gone, and the barrel is turning brown (slightly). I havent seen too many round barrels on these guns, and this looks like it is of heavier build than most. Sort of a junior bull barrel.
Any help I could get with these guns would be highly appreciated. Thanks,
I've been able to find a little about I. Hollis and sons, but not much about what guns they produced.
The other gun that I recieved is a 1873 Winchester cal.38 What it has that I haven't seen a lot of is a round barrel. It has Kings improvement on the reciever and under the lever is 1547 32A .
There is a little safe that turns about the lever. The butt plate has an opening for what I assume to be cleaning equipment?
The blueing is almost gone, and the barrel is turning brown (slightly). I havent seen too many round barrels on these guns, and this looks like it is of heavier build than most. Sort of a junior bull barrel.
Any help I could get with these guns would be highly appreciated. Thanks,