Your gun was made in 1882 but from the index in Nigel Brown Vol. 2 does not appear to be one of the few serial numbers written in the records that year.
There might be an entry identifiable by knowing the original purchaser’s name.
Does it have initials engraved on the escutcheon oval, or if cased is there a name or initials to be seen?
In 1886, Edwinson Green wrote to Shooting magazine in response to a survey that his plain guns were signed E.C. Green on the lock plates whilst those £16 and over were signed Edwinson C. Green.
As to R. & S. patent it is clearly not Roper and Spencer (pump guns) but might be Rigby and Scott (forming chokes by swaging tubes)?
Last edited by Parabola; 02/02/25 03:00 PM.
