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Herb:
Clabrough, in its various permutations, was a mid-grade gun made in Birmingham. Well built, but not in the class of William Powell or W. & C. Scott's better stuff. Not to say certain Clabrough guns weren't nice... I just acquired one myself, in fact. Many were imported and sold in the US before the McKinley tarriff. Mostly in the South. I'd be interested to see the gun if you get it. |
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01-12-2014, 03:24 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Larry Shelton just published a new book on Clabough shotguns he would be a guy to contact. www.clabrough.com
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01-12-2014, 03:51 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I have one I use as a wet weather gun. It is a 12 gauge self opening box lock ejector with nitro proofed damascus barrels. Nicer than their average, but I've seen a few better Clabroughs. I bought it at auction for around $250. Someone had cut off a couple inches of the barrels and properly replaced the bead but didn't fill in the keel area. I lifted several shallow barrel dents and filled in the missing keel area. It is a real nice grouse gun. I count it as one of my best bargains.
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01-12-2014, 04:20 PM | #6 | ||||||
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I have a 12ga JP Claybough hammer gun. It's a nice light gun with 30 inch damascuss bbls and has very nice wood and engraveing for the money.
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01-12-2014, 04:37 PM | #8 | ||||||
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To my knowledge a book on clabrough shotguns have not been printed before and this is a totally new book that will make any side by side collector happy to have in there library.
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01-12-2014, 05:21 PM | #9 | |||||||
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the original was done in 1978 and unavailable any where Lawrence P. Shelton, Clabrough Golcher & Co Far Far West Publishers, 1978 - 119 pages listed here http://books.google.com/books/about/...d=e9WmHAAACAAJ or here http://www.worldcat.org/title/jp-cla...s/oclc/8868056 and discussed here http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/...6172d7d6ab57c4
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01-12-2014, 05:27 PM | #10 | ||||||
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I stand corrected
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