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More info on Krupp combination gun

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Hello! You've helped me in the past and now I have a real stumper. (To me!) Having searched for hours to find a bottom lever combination gun pictured anywhere, I finally find one on your site, but lost the connection with my tablet, so I've switched computers. We've got a combination 28 ga. double, over a rifle, the engravings are just like a Hollenbeck yet I'm sure its german because of the eagles and lack of mfg. name. Monte carlo stock w/engraved bullet box in the top of the stock, its hammerless, which makes me think its not ancient, yet the bottom break lever threw me off. Lots of engraving, yet no scenes, where should I look for more info??
 
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If the operating lever wraps around the trigger guard and is pushed forward to open the action it is a Roux action. It's more than likely it has a "dolls head" extension at the rear of the rib/barrels that fits into a corresponding mortise in the top of the receiver. As Marble pointed out it is a drilling, not a combination gun and is not made by Krupp who, as he also stated, was a steel manufacturer.

There was several hammerless actions well before the turn of the 19th to 20th century, some going back to the 1870's. Being hammerless doesn't give any more than a range of dates. Hammer drillings were also made well into the 1930's. A Monte Carlo stock on a drilling sounds as if it's been re-stocked. Full coverage oak leaf engraving was not uncommon as was other patterns. Game scenes were not 100% by any means. It's entirely possible it will never be known who actually built the drilling. Quite probably most drillings were made "for the trade", that is the gun trade, and not the misnomer of "guild gun" many Americans attach to a German firearm by an unknown maker.

To again defer to Marble, pictures of the drilling and its proof marks will be necessary before anything can be determined.
 
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