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    Help with identifying these old shotguns

    I recently started a thread about an old Tower Enfield my Grandfather has on his wall. Turns out it was a genuine 1856 tower.

    Now I just got back from his and managed to take a few photos of the shotguns that are on his wall together with the rifle.

    One is a black powder shotgun (I can see faintly a J Forrest(?) same on the side)

    This one has one of the hammers broken, He still has the other piece somewhere.

    And the other is a under lever shotgun (Not black powder or muzzle loaded)

    I cant see any makers marks on this gun, there is faint engraving on the side.


    Sorry about the dust on them fellas. I was in a bit of a rush. Might pop down tomorrow and take some more pictures.

    So if anyone has any idea on what these are, it would be most appreciated!

    Cheers

    Jake


    Here are the images. The first one is all three on the wall. The top one being the BP shotgun, middle being the unknown under lever and bottom is the 1856.

    https://i.imgur.com/Prl4mrs.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/ySoASdM.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/L80Z6u3.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/VLKp7K8.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/G0pXaZU.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/MvtNSsf.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/ZZT0P0u.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/LohC74p.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/f1IA4xN.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/IHLPsfi.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/XmtrepO.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/eOZUbjh.jpg

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    There is a John Forrest in Oxford, Stockel shows him ending in 1829 so quite possible, things changed so quickly in the heyday of patents.

    Is the shotgun on a shotgun certificate or deactivated? If not you might want to erase this thread PDQ then hide it at the bottom of the canal

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    Quote Originally Posted by robinghewitt View Post
    There is a John Forrest in Oxford, Stockel shows him ending in 1829 so quite possible, things changed so quickly in the heyday of patents.

    Is the shotgun on a shotgun certificate or deactivated? If not you might want to erase this thread PDQ then hide it at the bottom of the canal
    My grandfather has a section 2 so no worries.

    Ill have to have a look about the J Forrest one, cheers

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    more images https://imgur.com/a/y9PNS

    The J Forrest shotgun has the number 7090 stamped on the stock.

    My Grandfather also thinks it has had a barrel change in the past.

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