wasting time on saturday afternoon....and happened on a "new to me" variation - a classic french helice actioned 16 gauge gun. every thing about the action, and three point lock-up is obviously a product of st. etienne....but the gun is wearing bohler steel barrels, and finished and proofed in austria - nary a french proof mark on it.

don't recall ever seeing a helice action sold out of country....and it looks to be a pretty nicely finished shotgun.

https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...un.cfm?gun_id=102760640&watch_list=1

best regards,

tom

"it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
lewis carroll, Alice in Wonderland