Well, I picked it up last night. It has a tiny dent on top the right barrel, a couple little pieces of loose solder rattling inside the raisd rib, beautiful clean smooth bores, and checkering worn smooth at the knob of the semi-pistol grip. Dead on face and locks up tight with a satisfying, definite "clunk". Someone must have loved this gun, because they obviously shot it a bunch and took great care of it. Balances a bit over 5 inches ahead of the front trigger, maybe an inch further out than my light French doubles. Very different handling dynamic. Can't wait to try it on some clays. Overall verdict is I'm very happy with it. Hope to get some patterning done in the next couple days.
Here's a pic of the proofs. The inspector's code, a star-capped upper case "H" appears unambiguously to indicate Woit Cristophe 1938-1968. But the closest thing to a date code looks like a lower case "g" (1928), unless it's supposed to be a "q"?
