Handcrafted English and with Purdey system

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For the experts forum, throw the next challenge and for my help:

This shotgun is a Handcrafted English and with Purdey system.

That English manufacturers in the past made shotguns with this system - copies?

Publish some photos that may help identify its producer.



https://youtu.be/H4Taz4FzzVw
 
Would you rephrase your request(?) so we know just what you are asking?
 
While the shotgun in the Youtube has generic Purdey double underbites, the sidelock is not the Beesley design used by Purdey of London for the past 130 years or copied by AyA in Spain.

The Youtube does not have enough resolution to read the proofmarks which would show where the gun was made.

All the quality gunmakers I know put their name or trademark on their guns. The brand on my Verney Carron is very small, though. Is there not anything on the right lockplate or top rib?
 
Not being a copy of Purdey is a system very similar - perhaps an imitation!

But this seems to be a strange case because proofmarks are English. Those that were manufactured by AyA, I. Ugartechea and otros Spanish manufacturers, proofmak were bank Spanish evidence.

Tomorrow I will put photo with proofmarks and it may well help.
 
Sending photos with proof marks more visible.

I am grateful to help you identify the possible producer of this shotgun.

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Thank you Mr. Jim Watson for the info!

Was Henry Atkins, Frederick Beesley was the original patent or other...? What suggestions?
 
Thanks for the info Jim Watson.

This has not recorded its manufacturer and therefore considered an English artisan.

Yet it has all the details of a shotgun a very fine for the time and hoped that the details of sidelock we could reach a potential manufacturer...

Frederick never produced any shotgun in the experimental stage? may not have been one of the shotguns "guinea pig" ...

We may be facing a shotgun large very rare quality and a great story. I ask for your help. Thank you,
 
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Along more photos has other proof marks ...

It may help to identify the possible producer of this shotgun of great quality and beautiful ... it's intriguing to me one shotgun this quality that was produced about 1900 does not have the name of its producer registered in barrels or in sidelock is ... un puzzle liked to disentangle ... I'm very grateful to be able to help this discovery !!!

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I challenge the experts of this forum that can help uncover the possible producer of this shotgun with proof marks of London ... it has been an experience or prototype and produced by Frederick Beesley after the sale of patents to Purdey and therefore not recorded in the your name?

It has the number 2369. This information can help you find out?
 
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