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Greener SxS Shotgun

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
Greener SxS Shotgun
Auction Location:

16600 Aston Street
Irvine, CA
Antique Greener Side-by-Side Shotgun, #35895, 10 ga., 32'' twist barrel with Birmingham proofs, double trigger, exposed hammers, checkered walnut stock and splinter forend with horn tip inlay and Deeley release. Ca. 1893. Top of barrels marked ''W.W. Greener, 68 Haymarket, London, Winner at the London Gun Trials, 1875, 1877, 1878 & 1879''. ''Patent Treble Wedge Fast'' in oval at breech. Frame and recoil shield lightly engraved with foliate banknote scrolls. English style round pistol-grip cap and checkered horn buttplate. Condition is very good retaining approx. 20% brown to barrels. Frame shows 40% case colors mostly in protected areas; 50% blue to triggerguard. Stocks show light general flattening to fine checking. European walnut stock shows light scuffs, possibly some very light sanding at one point; nice oil finish is retained. Action is crisp, bores show some erosion at muzzle that may clean. Firing pins have been shortened for safety reasons. A fine Engl!
ish large fowler from the end of the 19th Century. (Walt Hallstein collection) Est.: $2,000-$4,000.