![]() GREENER” on each side, with serpentine fences, enclosed Greener patent cross bolt and blued toplever with gold inlaid crown. Casehardened scalloped-back treble grip action signed “W.W. WINNER AT THE LONDON GUN TRIALS 1875, 1877, 1878 & 1879”, fitted with two white bead sights, and finely engraved with scrollwork framing a vignette of a heron at the breech end towards the rib extension. With browned fine Damascus barrels each engraved with fine sprays of foliate scrollwork at the breech end. ![]() The left hand barrel flat is factory marked “CHICAGO EXHN. Its specification included 30 inch best laminated steel barrels with an engine turned rib, a half pistol hand stock measuring 14 3/8 inches and weighing in at 7 lbs. This gun is also described and illustrated in The Greener Collections by Graham Greener, pp. ![]() The makers have kindly confirmed this gun is one of eight Royal Grade hammerless ejector shotguns made for that exhibition. ![]() Greener exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago the following year. This beautifully engraved Greener shotgun features the famous Greener patent self-acting ejector system and was manufactured in 1892 to form part of the W.W.
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