Here is a picture of the barrel. I will take a picture of the barrel flats tonight. The barrels are stamped Bernard and the chambers are stepped as well as the cartridge cases.

On a side note, the gun was supposedly owned by Levi P. Morton who was the Vice President of the United States in 1888. Interestingly enough, he was also the Minister to France in 1881.

Unfortunately, I do not have any provenance to support this but the timeline makes sense as the gun was made in 1869 and he probably picked it up while he was in France. This was what the auction company said in the description when I bought the gun.

It came with 12, 4 gauge brass cases and 4 of them were loaded. I took them apart and old newspaper dated 1884 was used as wadding. A neat story if nothing else.

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