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Please correct me if I am wrong, if memory serves me, I believe that the Colt shotguns were actually made for a period of years by the English firm of C.G. Bonehill of Birmingham to Colt's specifications and exported into the U.S.
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That isn't mentioned in any Colt doubles article I've ever read from Wallace Labisky's in the June 1966 issue of
Shooting Times onward.
A fairly early Colt flyer on their hammerless double --
Colt Doubles flyer, pg 1.jpg
Colt Doubles flyer, pg 2.jpg
and a page from the 1900 J. H. Johnston catalog about the time they were being closed out --
Model 1883, 1900 J.H. Johnston catalogue.jpg
Beautiful gun Bruce and great coincidence.