doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Previewed Julia's today....

I stopped by Julia's today and previewed the lots in next week's gun auction.

The catalog for the auction is online here:

http://www.juliaauctions.com/

The shotguns are in Session 3.

There was some nice stuff there. I thought these were the hightlights:

Daly BIGG bores - 8g & 4g - these guns are beasts. The carving on them is fantastic:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=59094

H&H #2 Pigeon Gun - overall, pretty nice:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=59137

Purdey 12g. Standard stuff, but pretty nice:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=60727


These 16g Woodward O/Us were interesting. They both have 24" bbls. The top one is an earlier gun (ejector work on the bbls).

I thought the difference in how the actions are filed up, the different lock shapes, and the amount of engraving on each of them was interesting.

16g Woodward O/Us:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=60380

http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=60381

I thought these were the nicest guns in the auction:

Lancaster sidelock O/U - this looks nice and very original. It's odd and bizarre, but cool all the same. Check out the hump back on the stock and the forend that looks like a crab's claw. Then there's the old fashion leg o'mutton locks. It's the platypus of English O/Us:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=59252

R.G. Owen 30.06 rifle, made for K. Roosevelt - understated, elegant, and beautiful:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=59033


And this was the oddest gun I saw:

Lot #1830 - GECADO COMBINATION BOLT ACTION RIFLE/SHOTGUN:
http://jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct06/catalog_detail.asp?Details=60282

Enjoy the pics.

OWD

The Lancaster is an odd duck alright, whats that thing on it's bottom?
I like that "standard stuff"(understated) Purdey. Have we become jaded to the world's best gun.
You can keep those Daly's, well over done - looks too carvey.

I bet you liked the short tubed Woodwards..

However, if you owned the Dalys, and maybe a .410 Skeeter, you would never need another shotgun. All those 12s, 16s, 20s and 28s are just poor compromises.

What would you "need" a .410 skeeter for?
Best,
Ted

Ted, obviously for anything too small to shoot with the "four", like hummers and dragonflies.

LG-

Purdeys are nice, but a lot of them are all the same. I think they're a bit plain and boring.

On the Lancaster, I don't know why the front lump has an extension on it that comes through the floor of the action.

Here's a Lancaster boxlock O/U:

http://www.connecticutshotgun.com/guns/3755.htm

I think this gun was made up in Germany and then finished off in the UK by Lancaster. I remember an article in the DGJ about Lancaster doing this.

I wonder if part of the sidelock O/U had origins on the Continent as well?

A lot of European O/Us are like that (lump extension through the action), so it would make sense.

Check out the lump extension poking through the bottom of this gun:

http://www.connecticutshotgun.com/guns/3135.htm

OWD

Anybody know any more about the history of the 16 gauge Woodward O/U's with the 24 inch barrels? I seem to recall the late Don Schrum of Cape Outfitters had such a gun listed at one time and Dewings may have one now. There are also several photos of a 16 gauge Woodward O/U with 24 inch barrels in Boothroyds book on the British O/U. There surely can't be that many of these around. I've never seen or heard of a short barreled Woodward O/U in any other gauge. Perhaps they were made for women or young shooters?

Are those the same Daly's that Seyfried wrote about and have been on display (For sale, but never sell.) at the Vegas show for the last few years?

They are the same Dalys that have been wandering the circuit for more than thirty years. They have probably been in more than one collection, but surface from time to time to be relocated. Maybe some young guy will buy them this time so we will not see them so soon again. The history of these guns seems to be in serious doubt. The latest version is that they were made for a wealthy gunner on the Eastern Shore of MD. It is not the story I got almost thirty years ago from one of the early "outers".