American Flag Bunting 16ga Top Action

[Bruce Day]

A salesman's sample would be my thought. But this is a somewhat late hammer gun also and likely requested by a discerning buyer who wanted something special. We know there were a few salesmen who represented the European barrel makers to the trade, and there were many damascus patterns including chain , rosette, two types of Bernard, many blade counts of croille and several different stars and stripes patterns, of which the American Flag Bunting is a Stars and Stripes pattern. I don't think its unreasonable to suppose that one of these salesmen could have easily supplied a set of tubes for a special gun. I take it you are aware of the Terrill gun, which has the name Terrill recurring in the damascus ribbon the full length of both barrels.

Unanswered is if the barrels are special order, why special order on a G, which was the lowest damascus graded gun. Why not at least a D, which was the usual presentation or special gun.

All this is just speculation.

Drew Hause has made a passion of damascus and perhaps he can add his thoughts.