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Neat gun and nice example ol'Rabbit.
I've only seen one Meriden gun, a lower grade it was too and yours in way better condition. Seems you made a good deal.
Btw, I like the stylized birds!
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Sidelock
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I really like the scroll.
Best,
Mike
I am glad to be here.
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Sidelock
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Nice looking flinte.  The wood/metal junction looks bit "frosty". I hope the guts aren't in horrendous shape. 
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For Drew's pictorial record:  Meriden 12 ga barrelset w/ H.R.F. stamp
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Lowelly, Meriden field grades usually look like they were built at the cast-iron stove foundry. This one has some potential because it has more than a remnant of robust good health. Course all frogs and vintage doubleguns has good pints and bad. I'm up to four damascus doubles now. Shot the other three with nitro; only one of them with black. Gun is 8 lb. even and barrels appear at first glance to be heavy like those on my SAC gun so may shoot this one eventually but will do a bit of plumbing the depths with Ye Olde Walle Theekness Gage and maybe ask Orlen to take a looksee before I do. Got to do something about the "travelling" forend also. Maybe some weld on the forend lug.
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Rabbit, your Meriden has that certain rustic thing going for it!
I think it was a country doctor's gun?
There is no Brit tier system that I know of for American guns.
So heres my American rating system.
(1st tier) above the fireplace it goes.
(2nd tier) behind the mudroom door it's propped.
(3rd tier) under the bed springs it stays.
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On BV alone, there sure as hell is an American tier system!
jack
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Them aint birds, thems flyin turnips.But I like em, specially on my Parkers ;>) Bob
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
-John Muir
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Could be - coud be at that olden Rabbit, but all in all, thats an interesting piece you have. One day, I can only hope your post a pic of the Meriden and SAC...together!
Maybe with a Chesapeake Bay duck decoy stuck in there, somewhere?
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If you'd been privileged to read the paean to rafted ducks riding the swells on the south coast sent to me by a friend of yours and mine, you'd think of that larded football as normal.
Lemme see, Parker? That rings a bell. You heard of that one, Lowell?
jack
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