This looks like the fabled Alice Congdon gun. From thhat estate in Duluth Minnesota.It certainly looks good to me, My AA had similar engraving!

Jim to which gun are you referring?

Pictures of the barrel flats have been added to the link.

The skeet markings look very "factory" with one marking encroaching on the barrel weight stamps. Could this be a Runge-DelGrego upgrade? Personally, I don't care, but the price and value would be very different.

The 28 gauge AA skeet gun. This may be the gun that shot a intruder in the cognon mansion in Duluth Minnesota. The gun went into evidence and then disappeared. It was thought that a family member was given the gun after the police let it out of evidence. George Flaim and Jack Puglisi both talked about the little gun, It was quiet a story. I use to hang out with these two characters!

Congdon Mansion!

And by the way, talk about two characters. They were so much fun!!

191767 is a 1920 0-frame 28 gauge gun but it’s not in the serialization book and there is no data upon which to base a research letter. Obviously in one of the “missing” books… perhaps in one of the books in the possession of the DelGrego family, eh?

This gun was manufactured six years before Skeet was invented and like sixteen years before Remington/Parker were stamping the SKEET IN and SKEET OUT on the flats.

We’ll never know what happened with this gun… It sure is pretty though.





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Jim, in what year was that murder committed?





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Barrel flats
 

Merz people gave me permission to post these pictures. I noticed in the book it shows only 5 28 gauge AAH guns; 4 with 28" barrels and one with a 32" barrel. No guns with 26" barrels. And like someone already said the gun was made prior to skeet being invented. These pictures show, in detail, some issues with the printed numbers on the barrel flats, including the over stamping of the frame size on the barrel lug. See for yourselves. And like I said before that barrel extention fit is very suspect to me.
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