Grade of Drew's Gun
The picture of the fore end is not sharp enough to show a small "bow tie" diamond in the center which corresponds to Grade two; but the checking pattern is not the multi diamond pattern on the dam 3. A fore end swap during the last 120 years is not out of the question.
I have a two barrel set about two years older with similar filing and engraving. It has two matched weight barrels; one a twist and one damascus.
There was condiderable flux in engraving and decoration prior to about s/n 22000. Two things seem to be consistent and definitive; the two grade had three distinct diamonds in the fore end checking pattern; the higher grades had a different pin layout for the rebounding hammer.
My bet would be that this is one of the few dam 1 guns that we occassionally find.
Best, Austin
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