Colt Model 1883

[Matto]

So Bruce, if we are hunting with you and you are using that gun, do we address you as Watson? BTW that is one very nice shotgun!

[Researcher]

Please correct me if I am wrong, if memory serves me, I believe that the Colt shotguns were actually made for a period of years by the English firm of C.G. Bonehill of Birmingham to Colt's specifications and exported into the U.S.

That isn't mentioned in any Colt doubles article I've ever read from Wallace Labisky's in the June 1966 issue of Shooting Times onward.

A fairly early Colt flyer on their hammerless double --

Colt Doubles flyer, pg 1.jpg

Colt Doubles flyer, pg 2.jpg

and a page from the 1900 J. H. Johnston catalog about the time they were being closed out --

Model 1883, 1900 J.H. Johnston catalogue.jpg

Beautiful gun Bruce and great coincidence.