The rib appears to be uncut. The top of the rib is not polished down and you can see where each matting line terminated as the matting machine was lifted.
As for the barrels being cut or uncut... who knows...?
Get a bore micrometer and measure the bore diameter and the constriction in thousandths of an inch.
If the serialization book says the barrels were originally 28" I would order a letter... I think the book has been wrong once or twice before.
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George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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