Nigel Brown lists Alfred Bruton, Barrelmaker in Birmingham circa 1890, a bit late for this gun ? although he could have been in business earlier.
Littlegun.be lists an Alphonse Bernard and there is something about him using AB in an oval. Document dated 1855 but its written in a foreign language. Don't know if he was gunmaker or barrelmaker. Had another look at the document and it certainly seems to refer to a type of damascus.

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