Yesterday's Weapons Forums

;DI believe we have a shoulder/punt gun........
1" smooth-bore, SWAMPED barrel 54"~ In the Jaegar swamped fashion~ carvings, and BP is missing with some termite damage to toe area, the stock has been shortened, but it was full length originally, as there are 2 tenon cuts on the bottom on the barrel, there has been a sight blank, and the sight re-slotted back toward the tang, tang is almost straight. All brass furniture, Fowler BP missing completely....cap-lock works, but is rusty and slow, the bore has slight rust, but beefy enough to be re-bored~1-1/4"...probably 25#.
Any ideas fella's? it's a widow's gun, what would a price to set it at for her to sell?

That's amazing! I've never seen one outside of a museum! Condition is typical - market hunters used them to destruction.

Since I've never seen one for sale, all I can offer is start it at $1000 & see where it goes. SW

**eta** Looks like I wasn't too far off... saw this one on gunborker. Another on guns America was 17,000, but it was primo.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =521643842

i have no idea either save that they are so rare as to not have any kind of sale record i could find ,

If the bore is about 1" it is a 4 gauge.
A 2 Gauge would be about 1.33".

In my point of view don't sale it, instead put it in a museum as part of of the history, a souvenir items wherein many could possibly view in the museum.

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