Marshfellow:
Can you tell me if the interesting marks near the forend lug is a script "FH"? It it a pre-1910, although there are exceptions and plug gauge stamps like 67/49(0.410") are sometimes found later, longarm sourced from Zella-Mehlis(Zella St. Blasii or Mehlis at the time) as the rifled tube which experience proof with a solid projectile was sourced as a blank from the Schilling Forge(or choose the Schillings of Suhl if you wish) and Max Moller of Zella-Mehlis(Zella St. Blasii or Mehlis) was the rifled tube maker. I think the initials to be "MM" but they would be "WW". Both scattergun tubes experienced proof with shot and are choked. And 16(65mm) is the correct cartridge. Can you tell me if there were initials on the left side read of the frame? It looks like a Heym sourced frame and Franz Heym, Not Friedrich Wilhelm Heym, could have done the fitting.
Interesting device on the right side of the head of the stock(rifle selector?). I've seen a mechanism in that location on a Teschner-Collath drilling but it was some sort of barrel lock.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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