My 26" #1-frame damascus GHE 12 has muzzles like that. The bbls seem to obviously have been cut but it letters with 26" bbls. I figure it was maybe originally 28" and languishing unwanted in a lonely factory corner when someone ordered a 26" gun and they just chopped them, put in keels and sent it off. At 6#10oz it's a delightful little gun.
I didn't think I'd like my 24" PHE 16 as well as I do, but that thing is a woodcock slayer extraordinaire that makes even me seem like I know what I'm doing, which takes some doing. I bet this little Ithaca will be the same.
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