doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Barrel Identification Help

I just purchased a very nice Charles Osborne 16 gauge and it has replacement barrels. Was wondering if anyone can help me identify who or what company made them? Thanks in advance for your help.

Prague/Praze 1902 with later 70mm stamp.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Post images of any other marks forward to the forend hanger and it might point toward a source.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

I'm sorry, this is all I have right now as I haven't received the gun as of yet.

I'm very curious of the date of the Osborne and I'd like to see the preliminary datastring. Could have been that a fella purchased the Osborne pre-1900 and lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Curious, curious sourcing. With the Jen Pro Broky choke stamp I would guess they were sourced from Weipert. But Ferlach & Liege are possibilities.

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...true#Post292152

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

I contacted Ferlach and they said they are not their barrels.

I'm pretty confident that they cannot discern if the tubes were sourced from Ferlach or not, but what they can say is that those are not their proofmarks. Now if there is something coupled with the barrel making process and the preliminary proofing process, then yes they make that claim. Now they do have the ability to check the proofhouse number for 1902 and say yeah or nay. For 1902, I think that the mechanics in Weipert are the culprits. But what we would need to see is either the preliminary stamp of an E coupled with a script W or for Ferlach an E coupled with a F. Then there are the typical Liege marks.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse