Hi everyone. glad to see so many knowledgable people in a forum!
I ask for your forgiveness beforehand considering the use of english or any etymological hunting term that I am not familiar.
I lost my father recently and I inherited the attached gun (alogside other four hunting rifles). To my knowledge this is the 3rd generation of my family that this gun is passed (around 1945 is a rough estimate). So the gun, thus in a bad condition has a huge sentimental value. I just recently started maintaining, the gun has not polished or maintained for many years, there is rust everywhere.
I have made small steps cleaning it with an experienced hunter because I fear I may damage it. I have found some markings. and I identified some of the symbols from your stickie thread.
This is an elg double barrel shotgun (the encircled symbol with a star beneath it, is in both barrels). I cannot see any crown until the time I write this post. I have seen a PV. I seem to identify a 19.0 and a 19.6 and I am thinking these are the different chokes of each barrel. Other symbols that I recognise are the no 1 (the perron), no 6 and an A or D with an * above them and a 19w written horizontically.
The gun has two pictures on it (really shocked when I saw them under the rust).
The one is a fox and a fence and part of the second picture is a bird (perharps a partridge).
I stopped from maintaining in fear of erasing part of the pictures or the letters.
Questions
1. could you confirm if the symbols I see are the right ones?
2. Date of manifacture
3. company
4. where I should find a serial number (if it exists)
The gun will be fixed to its former glory, thats for sure, but I hope I will find some answers before hanging it at my fireplace.
Pictures attached (feel free to ask for other ones if these are not helpful), please comment, any help would be really valuable for me.
ps. I do know that this gun is not supposed to be compatible withe the standard gunpowder and/or catridges that we find nowadays and I do not intend to even test it.
I ask for your forgiveness beforehand considering the use of english or any etymological hunting term that I am not familiar.
I lost my father recently and I inherited the attached gun (alogside other four hunting rifles). To my knowledge this is the 3rd generation of my family that this gun is passed (around 1945 is a rough estimate). So the gun, thus in a bad condition has a huge sentimental value. I just recently started maintaining, the gun has not polished or maintained for many years, there is rust everywhere.
I have made small steps cleaning it with an experienced hunter because I fear I may damage it. I have found some markings. and I identified some of the symbols from your stickie thread.
This is an elg double barrel shotgun (the encircled symbol with a star beneath it, is in both barrels). I cannot see any crown until the time I write this post. I have seen a PV. I seem to identify a 19.0 and a 19.6 and I am thinking these are the different chokes of each barrel. Other symbols that I recognise are the no 1 (the perron), no 6 and an A or D with an * above them and a 19w written horizontically.
The gun has two pictures on it (really shocked when I saw them under the rust).
The one is a fox and a fence and part of the second picture is a bird (perharps a partridge).
I stopped from maintaining in fear of erasing part of the pictures or the letters.
Questions
1. could you confirm if the symbols I see are the right ones?
2. Date of manifacture
3. company
4. where I should find a serial number (if it exists)
The gun will be fixed to its former glory, thats for sure, but I hope I will find some answers before hanging it at my fireplace.
Pictures attached (feel free to ask for other ones if these are not helpful), please comment, any help would be really valuable for me.
ps. I do know that this gun is not supposed to be compatible withe the standard gunpowder and/or catridges that we find nowadays and I do not intend to even test it.
