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Unread 12-19-2017, 01:53 PM   #11
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Thank you Sir! I have sent an e-mail to Mr. Barclay....Hopefully he will have a little time to shed light on the subject. Last evening I spent a little time looking at British Proof marks...Feel fairly certain the barrels are Birmingham Proofed.
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Question answered!

Dear Wesley,

Your gun’s lock plates are reminiscent of the Murcott Mousetrap but this is a red herring as the lock & action work can be identified by the Crudgington & Baker book volume 2, page 91, to a Richard Ellis and Henry Scott of Birmingham. The photo of the action flats show their patent mark of ‘RE & Co. Patent 2816’. The date of patent is 1879. Apparently, this was used quite commonly by mid-tier gunmakers of the time but only for a short while until better designs appeared.

I have no doubt that the gun was made in its entirety within the Birmingham guntrade in 1879 or 1880 and I can also find no reference to a ‘R Hanbury’ so must assume that he was a provincial hardware retailer who bought in a couple of guns to put on the shelf alongside nails, soap and rat traps!



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This is the first gun I have ever seen with Bernard Damascus barrels. We are accustomed to seeing the more typical (to students of the Parker anyhow) Bernard barrels seen on Grade 4 Parkers.

We know Bernard made various designs of pattern welded steel barrels and there are examples of each in salesman's sample kits we have seen. Perhaps Dr. Drew Hause can show examples for us.




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This is the first gun I have ever seen with Bernard Damascus barrels.
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Travelling right now. I'll address it later on when I'm home.






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The name of the Damascus as engraved on the rib is "St. Bernard Damascus". This could account for the difference between these barrels and the Bernard I & II patterns that we are more accustomed to.
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I should not have identified the barrels as "Bernard Damascus" but rather as Bernard Crolle Damascus or more specifically as Leopold Bernard. However, in my opinion they look even more like the Rubans Royal Extra as shown in the fourth illustration.
These illustrations are from the Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes a Feu salesman's case photos I found in Austin Hogan's files. I don't know who owns the case or the pictures and apologize if I have overstepped any bounds by showing them here.

Furthermore, I think you all will agree that the Bernard I is the pattern we regularly associate with Parker Bros Grade 4 Bernard Steel barrels.





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