First of all sorry for the bad quality of this photographs, but in overall every important detail is shown there and as you see, work is done in pure English style and it’s absolutely handmade. I will start to talk about things that can’t be shown on the photos. Sincerely, the greatest discovery for me was the mechanism, I have never seen mechanism assembled with such novice springs of that time, I have searched every firearm mechanisms and as far as I verified - it’s unique. Also I was surprised seeing such system of lock on it. It’s known as “Webley’s lock” and i can only say that it’s very rare. I saw it only once on “Grant” Also, when I looked into the mechanism I was amazed with the fact that on every detail, even on the smallest clinchers, there was engraved number (2).
To be objective, I will say here that in addition I’m the owner of Purdey’s, Holland & Holland, Lancaster and more best known first class shotguns, and I will tell you in secret that despite of my knowledge in firearms I knew nothing about W.Foerster before. Maybe because that, in general I was collecting shotguns made by English gunsmiths. But, since I faced this shotgun gradually I assured that his German author was making the better English style shotguns, then his English colleagues. In overall I wanted to say that I am very surprised of the performance level of this gunsmith and especially im pleased with the fact that his works are rare and is not widespread.
