Joe, now got the address; many thanks and I will try to download it. Forend catch is the same. At the moment I only have the forend and the struck up barrels which are off to Birmingham tomorrow. Stock and action are with the Gunsmith who I am going to B'ham with having a bit put on for length. If lucky I should have the barrels back in a couple of weeks and can then get it re-assmbled and tried out.
Does yours also have a sort of plate held by a couple of screws on the top of the action? I can't photograph mine to show what I mean at the moment. I would think the dating right. All I can say is that mine has post 1896 proof marks and the address on the rib was only used until 1900. As with a lot of these guns they would have had barrelled actions in stock waiting to be finished when a customer ordered it. When I bought it it had been in the same family since new but he had no-one to pass it on to that was remotely interested in it and so it came onto the market. No original paperwork exsisted. Lagopus.....
