I had at one time a Flues that had steel barrels that had been blacked using a process that made the barrels look like they were Damascus...in fact very much like bernard tubes. I asked around a little at the time, and was told that could be done as a factory special order. Long since sold the gun....it was a 20 (back when I believed all shotguns over 28 gauge were supposed to be 3 1/2" 12 bore waterfowl cannons). The strange thing is that they laid a Titanic Steel rib on the gun, I can sort of see sending raw struck and carded tubes the wrong direction, but to then knowingly solder in and finish the gun with the wrong barrels?
I think that this is a really unusual gun.
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