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The L.C. Smith diana #666439 10/14/25 05:42 PM
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 839 Likes: 190 Blacksburg VA Marks_21 OP Sidelock
OP Marks_21 Sidelock Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 839 Likes: 190 Blacksburg VA	https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...c-smith-diana-10-ga.cfm?gun_id=103307313

Re: The L.C. Smith diana Marks_21 #666441 10/14/25 07:32 PM
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,763 Likes: 462 AZ but dreaming of KS Drew Hause Sidelock
Drew Hause Sidelock Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,763 Likes: 462 AZ but dreaming of KS	Nicer than the usual H. Pieper Original Diana. Looks to have a steel breech and possibly Bernard tubes Similar engraving with Bernard - can't tell the grade https://sites.google.com/a/damascusknowledge.com/www/home

Re: The L.C. Smith diana Marks_21 #666444 10/14/25 09:28 PM
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 295 Likes: 13 MD USA Lawrence Kotchek Sidelock
Lawrence Kotchek Sidelock Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 295 Likes: 13 MD USA	the is not an LC Smith and has no relation to one. It is a Henri Pieper from Belgium. I like them, they are neat guns. The Diana is Beretta's monoblock 100 years earlier... It is maybe a $600.00 gun and probably less.

Re: The L.C. Smith diana Lawrence Kotchek #666446 10/15/25 02:56 AM
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 14,455 Likes: 278 Maryland eightbore Sidelock
eightbore Sidelock Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 14,455 Likes: 278 Maryland	Yup, nobodies L.C. Smith. What are these people smoking?

Re: The L.C. Smith diana Marks_21 #666448 10/15/25 08:11 AM
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,763 Likes: 462 AZ but dreaming of KS Drew Hause Sidelock
Drew Hause Sidelock Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,763 Likes: 462 AZ but dreaming of KS	The Original Diana monobloc was patented in 1881, in which the tubes were inserted from the breech with a step from the steel breech to the pattern welded tubes "Forest & Stream" 1882 Beretta referred to the process as the Brevetto. I don't know what Manufrance called it. Then in 1903, like the Modified Diana, Beretta inserted the tubes from the front; without the step A process now used by almost all of the Italian makers, with an occasional failure https://sites.google.com/a/damascusknowledge.com/www/home

Re: The L.C. Smith diana eightbore #666472 10/15/25 10:08 PM
Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 458 Likes: 130 southern New Mexico graybeardtmm3 Sidelock
graybeardtmm3 Sidelock Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 458 Likes: 130 southern New Mexico	Originally Posted by eightbore Yup, nobodies L.C. Smith. What are these people smoking? "these people" are straining the limits of their knowledge to determine that it is a shotgun.... "it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." lewis carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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