About 25 years ago I passed up buying an AHE Damascus 12 ga. that had a sea otter floating on its back in a kelp bed trying to crack open a clam with some sort of rock or stone engraved on its floorplate. A Winchester collector named David Bichrest from Maine had taken it in trade against a scarce lever action, and said he was not having much luck selling it because of the 'dangerous' Damascus barrels. I think the asking price back then was around $2500 (*sob!*).
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