Attic find smoothbore?

[Crockford]

Found this smoothbore in an attic of a house that was built in 1821. The house is located near Cahawba, Al (Old Cahawba). Was told Andrew Jackson stayed on the Property. The house has a lot of historical significance. Not sure how old the gun is and it only had one mark on the barrel top. I'm not familiar with this gun but thought it was pretty neat. Had engraving on the metal parts, but nothing to crazy. I took a few pictures and if anyone can shed some light on age and where it might have been made would be great. Thank you in advance.

 

[Crockford]

Looked to be around 20ga. The barrel is octagon to round and had lines all the way down, like maybe file lines?

 

[44Bro]

ELG It's a Belgian Fowler. The lines are most likely the welded barrel pattern. Remove the barrel from the stock, and you should find more markings. The rest of the cartouche is hard to see, it would give a date range. I will say that it was always percussion, so that dates it post 1830.

 

[Crockford]

Would I just drive the one pin out ? I have several Hawken style guns with wedge pins. So very familiar with taking them apart.

 

[44Bro]

That and the tang screw should do it.

 

[Crockford]

I will be back on the property in a few days and will ask the owner if I can take it apart. He didn't know anything about it.

 

[Crockford]

Yes, it only had one screw.

 

[44Bro]

Gently clean the ELG cartouche, the mark under the letters will give a narrower date range.

 

[Feltwad]

Standard Belgium export with typical Belgium fine twist octangle to round Damascus barrel which should be a standard hooked breech, it is minus a ramrod rib and not the right ramrod .The bore size on most export guns are 16 or 12 and can date from 1850 to 1900 because they were made to the early 1900,s
should restore ok
Feltwad

 

[Capnball]

Found this smoothbore in an attic of a house that was built in 1821. The house is located near Cahawba, Al (Old Cahawba). Was told Andrew Jackson stayed on the Property. The house has a lot of historical significance. Not sure how old the gun is and it only had one mark on the barrel top. I'm not familiar with this gun but thought it was pretty neat. Had engraving on the metal parts, but nothing to crazy. I took a few pictures and if anyone can shed some light on age and where it might have been made would be great. Thank you in advance. View attachment 111019View attachment 111014View attachment 111015View attachment 111016View attachment 111017View attachment 111018View attachment 111019

Love it. Unless you find out it's some kind of one of a kind collectable, I'd set about making that gun presentable for a wall hangar.