[pa916]

Hi can someone tell me who in Gardone VT made this?

http://s1327.photobucket.com/albums/u661/pa916/?albumview=slideshow

 

[Bindernut]

It's a Beretta shotgun. the label on the case is a dead give-away but so is the styling.
I'm not too familiar with the Beretta grades but it looks like a regular field-grade SO2.
http://www.berettaweb.com/Premium Guns/prima pg.htm

BTW, Gardone V.T. isn't a town in Vermont. Gardone Val Trompia is a city in northern Italy and is the home for Beretta.

 

[pa916]

Thanks. The box is not the box for that gun. It is similar to Beretta, but most say not. It was made in 1968

 

[Bindernut]

The only other Gardone V.T. maker I know that even remotely looked like the Beretta back-actions were the Gamba shotguns (Flli Gamba, or post-'67 Renato Gamba) that would be marked as San Marco or S. Marco.

I can't see clearly on your picture that shows the city marking. Does it have S. Marco on the line or two above Gardone?

 

[pa916]

It is really hard to read it is double stamped, but it is san something, and above that is armeria, over to the right there is a 1.
Wher the shield with armeria and SG is, there is a RAM, or PAM, or it could be BAM

 

[denny 714]

Beretta, I think !!!.....

Denny G.

 

[pa916]

The action is a 7 pin true sidelock if that helps

 

[RJay]

the only gun marking " San " that I can thnk of is San Marco also of Brescia ( or was )