I take it from the date you give for the Proof marks that the gun you are asking about is not the Gibbs and Pitt patent A&N that Skeettx has referenced from Gunbroker.
You do not provide photos or a serial number and without those you are simply inviting wild guesses.
You mentioned W&S and William Evans. W&S is quite likely as a maker, William Evans much less so.
If you really want to know, University of Glasgow hold the A&N records and as previously mentioned should be able to tell you from the serial number.
He doesn't really want to know. True to form, ed wants everyone else to engage in his trolling, while he absolutely refuses to do any modicum of research on his own, even as simple as a search on this site.
A search here for "army & navy" pulls up no less than 200 results. Wonder how many he's read to try to answer his question himself.
as you do not wish to exchange information in discussion with others here who have common interests, please be quiet and let the rest of us contribute to this thread and see where it goes...
hopefully, it will evolve into a condensed resource for others, who might one day ask:
popular whiz dum pretty much confirms w&c scott and webley & scott as makers of a&n guns...
as to william evans being a possible maker of a&n side locks, here is link to images of an evans brand gun with similar lock and frame design as the gun i referenced above:
They look similar because both A&N and Wm. Evans as well as many, many other retailers ordered their guns from WC Scott. You are making this much harder than it is, as usual.
Well I'm confused one is a bar action sidelock the other back action sidelock evens looks like an original finish gun or really good restoration the a&n not so much. the pins are nothing alike and I think both are way over priced I think both started at scott, the a&n is trying to be a London gun.but I could be wrong
and then, there is the provocative probability, that scott sold semi finished actions or even complete semi finished guns to job lot finishing shops, who, in turn sold guns in lots to whom ever placed an order...
for example, it is known that cashmore of birmingham, uk sold finished guns in branded lots to kirkwood bros of boston...
wonder who made english style guns branded iver johnson and a&f?
I think your gun was sourced from Scott and made up by Leonard.evens bought guns out but I don't know if they finished them in house or had a outworker network.gunswith evens name are generally nicely finished.you have a Scott sold by army navy that is all that matters
I think at this point in the post you could literally make a Time Machine and bring back Webley or Scott and they could tell Ed personally that they made the gun and he would argue otherwise. This is turning out to be a comical merry go round. Hopefully Ed will post more of his guns he’s trying to hock!
ed good, there isn't any need to be disrespectful towards those who served in the British forces. If you have a genuine interest in army & navy shotguns once owned by British servicemen, search for Bill Reid VC.
and speaking of taking offense, your identifing yourself as from scotland, uk, could be considered as offensive...to some, who dont much cotton to the uk thing...
but then, everybody is bound to piss off somebody sometime...otherwise, we would all become politcally correct lemmings...
He doesn't really want to know. True to form, ed wants everyone else to engage in his trolling, while he absolutely refuses to do any modicum of research on his own, even as simple as a search on this site.
A search here for "army & navy" pulls up no less than 200 results. Wonder how many he's read to try to answer his question himself.
Stanford why you down on Ed he at least makes interesting conversation.....
How many stories about how yer granpappy ground swatted quail can we endure.
an speakin uv axes to grind, you can add ah nutter one...
-fools from jawja, who come down to florida in the summer time and make a mess of things, by doin stuff they would neva have the nerve to do back home..............jes sayin...