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The gun on the right, Lot 138, is the earliest Edwinson Green serial number I have seen referenced and uses Whitworth patent one piece barrels.

Please note that the patentee of the action was not as stated Edwinson (E. C.) Green but William Charles Green who was probably Edwinson’s uncle.

Someone, it may have been the late De Witt Bailey, once told me that when Sir Joseph Whitworth was using this one piece system to make double rifle barrels more ended up on the scrap heap behind the factory that were successfully produced.

When I spoke to the proprietors of Longthorne at the Game Fair they told me that they did not have that problem.

Last edited by Parabola; 12/25/24 01:37 PM.