I hope no one minds me resurrecting this thread and perhaps taking it off on a slight tangent.
Geo, I have a 12g pinfire gun that very closely resembles the Boss in your picture, except that mine is signed George Fuller of 280 Strand. The barrels are marked "JP" (John Portluck) and the locks are initialled internally "JS" (John Stanton). The gun also has a stamp on the knuckle of the forend steel "65 2", which a friend has suggested may be a date, i.e. February 1865, although serial number progression, i.e. known numbers/dates > est. guns/year (30) would put it 3 years earlier. Donald Dallas remarked when I showed the Fuller to him earlier this year that it resembled a Boss he owned, and suggested that Boss and Fuller probably shared many of the same craftsmen.
Last edited by JulesW; 08/28/19 05:57 AM.
