Note also that the top of the breech face, from the top of one breech ball to the top of the other is flat. As Brian says, this is typical of guns with a ventilated rib but is also how they were on guns with a raised flat rib. Typically such guns were ordered as trap or skeet guns.
How many options did this gun have? What are they, according to the known records? How many barrel sets was the gun made with? Anything in the records about ribs?
That gun appears to have a flat rib, is it?
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