Sorry Dean et al, just a thought that escaped to the keyboard. I knew they were pictures of the action area of #230329, the Middleton gun. I was just musing that with the side clips, lack of recessing on the hinge pin, extra carving, deeper relief and bolder pattern on the top snap and gold onlays these pics bear some resemblance to high grade continental guns of the same period. Perhaps an additional breech ball ring or two or more pigtails were not enough to distinguish a new higher grade of gun in 1920 or 1929.
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