Please help me ID for Father in law

[Robertvibbert]

Found this when ripping down walls at in-laws. Dad said it was his great grandfathers. Dad is 78 wanted to get more information for him about it.

 

[Zonie]

It appears to be a British 10 guage shotgun. The proof mark is from Birmingham definitive black powder for shotguns used 1868 -1925 (the crown and B, C, P), and a Birmingham provisional proof in use since 1856 (the crown over script BP).

The first proof mark I mentioned indicates that the gun was made after 1868 but there's no way to know when.

 

[rich pierce]

Guns like this were imported and sold at every possible hardware and general supply store across the country in the mid to late 1800s. Every rural family that could afford one, got one.

 

[Story]

Found this when ripping down walls at in-laws. Dad said it was his great grandfathers. Dad is 78 wanted to get more information for him about it.

How did it wind up in the wall?

 

[bpd303]

I think the back action lock dates it after 1840.

 

[Buck Conner]

How did it wind up in the wall?

Over the years we have found several firearm hidden in the walls of houses or barns. Could have been put there for safe keeping to being stolen. Once they are put in these areas they usually go to pot and moisture gets to them. The best find we had was at Gettsyburg in a family barn, a half dozen British muskets hidden there (we think by family), then forgotten about. When we found them they were rusted junk.

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[Kansas Jake]

I suspect hiding something in a barn long term is a horrible place. Growing up on a farm with livestock in an old barn in the winter it was humid and I suspect the decomposing manure added to the corrosiveness of the air.

 

[Rudyard]

Rose brothers circa 1865 barrel makers all that's been said seems correct . Rudyard

 

[Buck Conner]

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You are correct Jake, everything that is not needed was in the barn to distroy what was left there.

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