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Can anyone identify this?

bigtire
This is a muzzle loading shotgun I picked up rather cheaply. I can't really tell if it is a reproduction or not. Seller claims it was made around 1840-50. There are no proof marks, it's about 20GA. Seller said someone identified it as a Mowrey, but I cannot find any info on that particular manufacturer. The curved buttstock on a shotgun does not make a lot of sense to me.
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  • BOBBYWINS
    Interesting piece!!

    But I don't have a clue.[:(]

    BW

    IT'S WHAT PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT MAKES THEM AFRAID.
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  • 1KYDSTR
    I cannot add too much here except I do not think it is a repro! Looks like an English fowler but a lack of proofs says otherwise. I think the date estimate is pretty good and would guess that it was made i New England; just a guess. Seems like a very familiar name too; I believe a Boston smith but I hope there is a more advanced collector out there who can actually help you! Good luck and nice pick-up!

    "When I cease learning...I'm dead"(Me)
    "Power corrupts...Absolute power corrupts absolutely"(Descartes?)
    "History is written by winners"(Patton)
    "You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(?)
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  • cussedemgun
    bigtire
    go to "www.bbhc.org" & contact their research library.
    please re-post & let us know what you find out.

    "all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" Robert Fulghum


    anyone who says "nobody needs a full auto" has never been in front of a brown bear charge
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  • Txs
    Mowrey makes reproduction black powder long guns.

    Here's their contact info if you want to determine if it's one of theirs.

    Mowrey Gun Works
    Box 246, Waldron, IN 46182
    (765) 525-6181
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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.com
    It actually reminds Me of a Edward Wesson Rifle I owned once...This particular Wesson was located in Grafton, Mass., 1834-1840, then at Northboro Mass., 1843-1850.. Hope You can I.D. this Gun for sure..and don't let the Butt Stock fool you! I've owned and have seen Fowlers with the Carbine Stock many times...One old Time Gun Smith comes to mind...E.B. Workmann..He had several Fowlers, and one was a Double mounted on a Carbine Stock...That His Father made....If Memory serves E.B was in His late 90's back in 1960, and died in the mid to late 1960's...

    Captain Kirk, Tech Staff
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  • 103166A
    This looks very much like my mowrey shotgun. same trigger guard, stock, buttplate, similar forearm, same ramrod, action is a little different (mine is brass) but i have seen this action on other mowrey type guns before. mine is a 12 gage octagon barrel, yours appears round. I bought mine as a kit ca. 1982.

    But i still can't say if yours is original or 20th century.

    103166A
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