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continental arms
kartracer2000
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I was given my gradfathers saddle rifle all I can find on it is that it is a Continental Arms Co single shot, any info or value would be great , Thanks
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as a side note, it is highly unlikely that you will ever find a single barrel shotgun with belgium proof marks (unless they are marked as imported into belgium). when this shotgun was manufactured the manufacturer in the u.s.a. had developed the single barrel shotgun into such a fine machine made art that no one else could match the quality and price of american made single barrels. it is a known fact that companies like stevens, harrington & richardson, hopkins & allen and iver johnson exported more single barrel shotguns than were manufactured by overseas companies. what you will find on american single barrel shotguns manufactured before 1900 are belgium made steel barrels. in a 1896 catalog iver johnson's proudly states their single barrel shotgun "champion" is made in house except that only the best belgium barrels are used. NONE of these barrels will have any belgium proofing. i have three of these early iver johnson champions and have studied several hundred more and none have belgium proofing.
double barrel shotgun are just the reverse of this for more were made overseas than in the u.s.a.
bill