It looks like the gun has been completely hot blued. Which is not the correct means of bluing any old double gun. This likely compromised the solder joints for the ribs.
It is sad as the gun itself is very valuable, being a factory skeet gun. But most of that value has been hurt from the hot bluing. It would take a few thousand dollars possibly to correct all of that and put the gun back right again.
Of course all of that does not make the gun not shootable. Unless corrosive salts have rusted at the inside of the barrels.
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B. Dudley
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