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Wonderful gun. I gotta ask....do you plan on using it? I hope the answer is yes. It would look even better next to a brace of fat mallards or even some geese. :-)

http://www.rstshells.com/store/p/177-10-Ga-2-7/8-Lite-Vel-1150-1-3/8-oz-Load-Box

Well, that woke me up...just remarkable, thanks for posting it.

Have a pic of the smaller label?

That is truly spectacular. I am pretty sure that Stephen Grant never made a less than extremely handsome gun, but few look as sharp as that one. I'll have to agree with LaFuse (for once), it would look great indeed if garnished with some freshly molted waterfowl (or a turkey, this being the time of year).

Thanks for all the kind comments, especially Doc Drew for the Damascus identification.

CB, the barrels are 32", Stan, it is choked cylinder in the right, .035 in the left.

Rob, see the charge card below.

Two questions: for what purpose would someone want such a heavy gun with this choke configuration?; and
assuming it won't be handled much, what is the best way to preserve the colors? I used Renaissance Wax when it first came to me.

LeFusil and Brent: Yes, it certainly should be used but I probably won't - I would be terrified of tripping and bashing it while turkey hunting, falling face flat in the marsh, or smacking it on the side of a pit blind. Tragically, due to the lock down I won't be able to hunt turkeys at all this year; I normally use a Smallwood hammer ten for that, but had planned on my Greener 12 bore Far Killing Duck hammergun this year. Brass shells, BP, and bismuth in both.

I know nothing about its history but Atkins Grant & Long sent me the ledger entry, with a later penciled note that it "..has some connection to Douglas Tate."

Curtis & Harvey �T.S.� (Treble Strong) was developed in 1871 for the .577/450 Boxer-Henry cartridge used in the Martini-Henry rifle. It was a precursor to �R.F.G.2� (Rifled Fine Grain 2) manufactured at the Royal Gunpowder Mills, Essex, adopted in 1873.
C&H, "T.S." No. 6 (84 grain = 3 Dr. Eq.) was coarse Black Powder somewhat similar (but not equivalent) to Fg.
C&H, �T.S.� No. 4 (82 gr. = 3 Dr. Eq.) medium grain similar to FFg
C&H, �T.S.� No. 2 (72 gr. = 3 Dr. Eq.) fine grain similar to FFFg.
https://books.google.com/books?id=inQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296&dq

1 1/8 oz 3 Dr. 12 gauge pressure was listed as 5820 psi + 10-14% for modern piezo transducer numbers
1 1/4 oz. 3 1/4 Dr. was 7790 psi + 10-14%

4 1/2 Drams 1 1/2 oz. is a BOOMER load even in a 10g