Dogs will roam
 

OK I didn't want to dilute JLows thread. So who can identify the maker and model? Just shows dogs don't always stay home. I know that there are at least a couple that frequent this site who can nail the maker at first glance so I am hoping they will let others have a good time making a guess. Will post the answer in due time.


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Meriden Fire Arms possibly?

The engraving appears to have been done by someone who was also a Parker Bros. engraving contractor... right there in Meriden.

Nope.
But similarity of the dogs caught my eye. Obviously someone migrated from one Company to another. It would be nice to match the engraving style to a particular period at PB. I don't remember if Meriden Firearms made boxlocks.
I recently purchased one but it isn't a boxlock.
Erick

Is that one of the old Stevens 325 models?

Attachment 31363Close enough and it didn't take long at all.

Beautiful gun Eric,needs some tlc though;)

Another stray
 

Another stray dog. Any guesses?
http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/s.../HammerDog.jpg

Thinking European Phil...that's all I got

Early Prussian? Linder pre-Linder? Maybe a Charles Daly? What about the two top tang screws? What is that about.

The Stevens isn't anything I own it had barrels cut back to 25" not to mention the crushed stock head

Interesting J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. double!! Generally speaking, the No. 350, 360 and 370 weren't engraved.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...atalogNo52.jpg

After the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. changed their method of barrel manufacture from the mono-bloc style of the No. 350, 360, 370 and briefly 380, they changed to a chopper-lump style barrels which they called demi-bloc. The guns then became the No. 355, 365, 375 and 385. In that series the No. 375 and 385 were engraved --

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps388d7add.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps0e7a9ac3.jpg