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...perhaps my eyes are deceiving me, but in the pictures it appears to have a significant engraving...
Here's an example of significant engraving with relatively extensive patina:
(edited by tinker as to stick to the point of the thread)
What I see on that richards is relatively simple border engraving with a little bit of flissy detail on the belly of the gun.
Furthermore for what it's worth, you're looking at a 'neat to have around' gun that's likely seen it's service life come and go.
Might be able to run it, might not.
If it were in your hands and showed itself to be fit for service with decent bores and enough wall thickness to do the job, you might be able to get away with loading light blackpowder loads for it and bust some clay off the back deck.
Couple hundred bucks is all I'd have given for it some time ago, definitely not today.
BTW, I'm pretty damn sure it's a converted pinfire shotgun.
Those hammers don't breech up to those strikers properly, and they don't look right on the gun.
It would have been worth more in the original pinfire configuration.
--Tinker
