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And from DT for your long holiday weekend entertainment: What is this, and what is it used for? 
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Looks like a stock bending jig.
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Close Chief-this, however, would be a stock bending jig 
Last edited by revdocdrew; 09/01/07 01:46 PM.
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Looks like it might be the same base, used perhaps both for stock bending with one set of clamps on it, and for another use with a different set of clamps. The copper covered "spillway" just at the wrist of the stock would certainly make me think of pouring hot oil on the stock. Perhaps in it's "second" configuration it is used for reattaching a loose lug to the barrels. I don't see enough sideways clamping in the picture to make me think it would straighten the barrels, and bending both together would be tough, so, that's my next guess. A jig to reattach forend lugs.
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Makin' it too hard Chief-it IS a jig, and IS used to do something with the stock. Note that the gun pictured is far from finished.
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Its for checking stock dimensions, cast,drop. etc to measure new stock.
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WE HAVE A WINNER (and I probably should have gone ahead and given it to Chief  ) 'Cast Jig' Self Centering Vise from Purdey's North Row workshop c. 1870s, and then to Irongate Wharf c. 1900. Discarded in the move of 1957 but retrieved by David Trevallion.
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This jig was used in conjunction with the stock bending jig or for measuring new stock dimensions
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Really appreciate your interest in "My Old Stuff"I am often asked 'How do you do'such & such with those 'home-made bits of old metal? I feel I"M being Rude when I say Its mosly common sense'to make a tool for a particular job on a Gun. I could never make a good tool for cocking a 'Elsie" with the Bbls off the action!.. But I have seen several made by "Tool-Heads" that work 100% (And thats without Brophys Book to guide you!)Prizes for good guess-work, at the Lobster Pound, Cape Neddick,4pm to closing..or they run out of Lobsters,(And Draught Harp)cc/dt
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