savage trigger guard barrel release

[jrs2956]

I have an old Savage single shot shotgun. The barrel release is a full ring trigger in front of the main trigger within the trigger guard.
Can anyone give me any information about it? When was it made, How common was this configuration? I have yet to find anything about it online.

 

[Fred Fuller]

The only thing similar I've seen was a Stevens double barrel, set up to open the action the same way. Those were made in the 1870s - 1880s.

http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=426551

Wyatt Earp used one of those double barrels ... http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-642817.html