These MacNaughton skeletal guns are considered to be the most elegant gun ever. They are very rare. Less than 150 were made, only 16 pairs. The 2531/32 numbers date them to 1901. And to my utmost joy fitted me as if I ordered them myself. They shoot as beautiful as they look.
A matched pair of bar in wood trigger plate guns with Damascus barrels. Steve may pass out.
They are tarted up with an excessive gloss finish but I could live with it.
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I have seen a 28 bore pair, with twenty- four inch barrels, otherwise just like these.
Baron Rothschild’s sixteen bore — he of the bird collection and the zebras, which was nice but there were no other guns as desirable to me. I’ll put a picture in another post. I think the Dixons are more than fine; the MacNaughtons were more primitively beautiful. At first, they were almost identical.
I knew a postman who owned a MacNaughton. I got to handle it after it got away from him.