I know members are interested in barrel browning - here is a Purdey on which we just re-laid the ribs and re-browned. As usual, click the picture to get the next one.

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Dig that looks like a filthy foreigner's tube. Did you see any Belgian marks when you removed the rib?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Dig, what is the serial number on that Purdey, please?

Tim

There are no Belgian marks on it - there would not be - Purdey did buy barrel tubes from Belgium on occasion but made the barrels in house.

Tim, it is a client's gun so I'd rather not divulge the S.N.

Dig,
Can you tell me if a logwood bath was used to bring out the blacker areas? I don't think so, but maybe?

Beautiful barrels and beautiful gun!

Purdey seem to have changed the top rib design to a more shallow version from this 1869 Bar in Wood in the intervening five years to 1874.