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This 12-ga. 2-frame DH with 30" damascus barrels was a Lewis Class prize gun which I had won at the UP S X S Classic.

In 1901, a fellow by the name of R. L. Sopes of Westfield, MA ordered a DH two-barrel set, #104098. In 1902 he ordered another set of barrels for that gun, thus making a 3-barrel set. Then in 1911, Mr. Sopes ordered a new frame, stock and forend from the factory and had them fit one of those barrel sets to this new frame at a total cost of $37.50. This is that gun, #155290:

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