Dogs will roam

[Gunner]

OK I didn't want to dilute JLows thread. So who can identify the maker and model? Just shows dogs don't always stay home. I know that there are at least a couple that frequent this site who can nail the maker at first glance so I am hoping they will let others have a good time making a guess. Will post the answer in due time.


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[Dean Romig]

Meriden Fire Arms possibly?

The engraving appears to have been done by someone who was also a Parker Bros. engraving contractor... right there in Meriden.

[Gunner]

Nope.
But similarity of the dogs caught my eye. Obviously someone migrated from one Company to another. It would be nice to match the engraving style to a particular period at PB. I don't remember if Meriden Firearms made boxlocks.
I recently purchased one but it isn't a boxlock.
Erick

[chris dawe]

Is that one of the old Stevens 325 models?

[Gunner]

stevens 350.jpgClose enough and it didn't take long at all.

[chris dawe]

Beautiful gun Eric,needs some tlc though

[Phil C]

Another stray dog. Any guesses?

[chris dawe]

Thinking European Phil...that's all I got

[Gunner]

Early Prussian? Linder pre-Linder? Maybe a Charles Daly? What about the two top tang screws? What is that about.

The Stevens isn't anything I own it had barrels cut back to 25" not to mention the crushed stock head

[Researcher]

Interesting J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. double!! Generally speaking, the No. 350, 360 and 370 weren't engraved.



After the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. changed their method of barrel manufacture from the mono-bloc style of the No. 350, 360, 370 and briefly 380, they changed to a chopper-lump style barrels which they called demi-bloc. The guns then became the No. 355, 365, 375 and 385. In that series the No. 375 and 385 were engraved --