With that serial number it was most certainly not made in 1876. That "serial number" you're looking at may be a patent date for the forend latch or some other feature.
Further, 117076 is missing from the Serialization book so it will be hard to confirm anything at all about the gun's features as it left the factory
There are however, factory records upon which you can obtain a Research Letter.
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but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
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