OK, we see that it is crolle Damascus, thanks Bruce.
I have no idea of the meaning of the K beside the D (for Damascus) stamp. But it could be the stamp of Charles A. King, superintendent of the gun works beginning in 1874 and your gun is an 1880 gun.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
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