The first VH to roll out of PB was SN88220 in 1898. So, this gun was not originally ordered with Vulcan Steel bbls. It had to of gone back to PB for a new set of fluid steel bbls. The Kf stamp on the barrel flats is the early stamp on Vulcan steel bbls. I had a 20ga VH with that stamp that was built in 1904. I do not know when the V with a circle around it was adopted. If somone knows this date then we can assume that the barrels were fitted sometime between 1898 and when the new stamp was adopted.
What a fantastic upland gun if in the 6 1/2lb range...and 28" bbls.
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