This is a future quail gun for me, a J. Venables & Son 16ga with 30 inch barrels choked none and none as it was produced before choke was invented. The shells pictured are 2 inch roll crimp paper with 3/4 oz of 7 1/2.
J. Venables was located in Oxford from 1846 to about 1900.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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