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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!shab08.larc.nasa.gov
- From: fox@shab08.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Fox)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Information requested for WW II shotgun
- Message-ID: <1hvcolINN8a6@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:57:24 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
- Lines: 51
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- I need information on a shotgun that my father brought back from
- Germany after World War II. He is interested in selling the gun,
- but does not know its value. Any help that you provide will be
- greatly appreciated. I have listed some of the features and
- markings found on the gun below:
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- o German 16-gauge side-by-side double barrell shotgun
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- o Two triggers
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- o Left barrell is modified choke ? , right is definitely full choke
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- o 43 inches overall length, 26.75-inch barrell length
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- o Some designs near breech
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- o Other markings:
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- - on barrell underneath forestock:
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- left barrell: 5757
- (design of crossed swords with + signs) STETIENNE 17.0
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- right barrell: B * P
- G (same design as other barrell) STETIENNE 17.0
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- - under breech:
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- (different design) VERNEY-CARRON
- PT AJIER DIAMANI
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- - side:
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- STETIENNE (more ornate)
-
- - under safety switch:
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- SUR
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- The gun is in pretty good shape. Thanks for any information that you
- can provide.
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- Mike Fox
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