Hard to tell. No sights but short barrelled and with heavy chamber and barrel walls and cylinder bore. My guess it was built as an all around gun to use for upland game and waterfowl. It was sold in Boston by Scott's only N.A.distributor at the time.Doubtful someone there bought it as a rifle. The odd thing is that I have a reprint of the Scott catalog from that year, and with all the many models they cataloged, there were no single shotguns. I don't know if it was a one-off special or not, but I haven't been able to find a reference to anything similar at all.
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