LeakyCanoe
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- Location
- SW Ontario
Greener " The Dominion" from about 1900 - likely parting out - best options for me ?
I'd like to tap into the brain-trust here. I have some old guns from father's estate that I will be needing to find new homes for over the next while and that project has brought me here and to this site as I try to educate myself on them. In the interim I have an inquiry of my own on a partial sporting gun that all this has prompted, and I might as well tackle it now ahead of dealing with the other firearms down the road.
I have a WW Greener "The Dominion" model 12 gauge side by side without a stock that I took in as part of a trade years ago. Research indicates that this gun was made between 1895 and 1902 and the serial number of this one places it around 1900. I was initially hoping I would either get more into gun restoration back in the day (I do some metalworking as a hobby) but that's not happening and this is now in the way and my hobby time is taking me farther away in other directions. It's time I dealt with it if I can before it gets separated even more.
I have the full barrel assembly, forestock, and most of the mechanical hammer assemblies stored safely as you can see from the pictures. I am clearly missing the trigger assemblies, trigger guards, and the rest of the buttstock. This is how it came to me and I never got the full back story on it. Accordingly I took it in on a bit of a leap of faith, but knowing it came from a fine English sporting manufacturer that is still in business today told me that it was worth the risk at the time and at the very least I could have a wall-hanger made up if I needed to.
If you are knowledgable in matters such as this please look at the photos and weigh-in with your take as to my options. Would I be best advised here to part what I have out individually (in a sum of the parts approach) or will what I have here be enough that it is likely to attract someone who might be able to carry this project across the goal line and spike the ball in the end zone, like I was once hoping to do ?
Also, I've read the market is very small here in Canada for old sporting guns like this and that the U.S. is likely a better proposition for me finding a good fit. Although I live in SW Ontario I have a recreation property in upstate New York that I go to all the time. If I can get this across the border without much of a hassle I'm assuming there will be much more of a market at my disposal, for whichever direction I look at ultimately in moving this on. What would the US border situation be if I declared it as I was bringing it across ? Is that even a feasible proposition, assuming I am correct with my hunch that the U.S. market is what I need to tap into ? Any special paperwork or advance registrations needed ?
I'd like to tap into the brain-trust here. I have some old guns from father's estate that I will be needing to find new homes for over the next while and that project has brought me here and to this site as I try to educate myself on them. In the interim I have an inquiry of my own on a partial sporting gun that all this has prompted, and I might as well tackle it now ahead of dealing with the other firearms down the road.
I have a WW Greener "The Dominion" model 12 gauge side by side without a stock that I took in as part of a trade years ago. Research indicates that this gun was made between 1895 and 1902 and the serial number of this one places it around 1900. I was initially hoping I would either get more into gun restoration back in the day (I do some metalworking as a hobby) but that's not happening and this is now in the way and my hobby time is taking me farther away in other directions. It's time I dealt with it if I can before it gets separated even more.
I have the full barrel assembly, forestock, and most of the mechanical hammer assemblies stored safely as you can see from the pictures. I am clearly missing the trigger assemblies, trigger guards, and the rest of the buttstock. This is how it came to me and I never got the full back story on it. Accordingly I took it in on a bit of a leap of faith, but knowing it came from a fine English sporting manufacturer that is still in business today told me that it was worth the risk at the time and at the very least I could have a wall-hanger made up if I needed to.
If you are knowledgable in matters such as this please look at the photos and weigh-in with your take as to my options. Would I be best advised here to part what I have out individually (in a sum of the parts approach) or will what I have here be enough that it is likely to attract someone who might be able to carry this project across the goal line and spike the ball in the end zone, like I was once hoping to do ?
Also, I've read the market is very small here in Canada for old sporting guns like this and that the U.S. is likely a better proposition for me finding a good fit. Although I live in SW Ontario I have a recreation property in upstate New York that I go to all the time. If I can get this across the border without much of a hassle I'm assuming there will be much more of a market at my disposal, for whichever direction I look at ultimately in moving this on. What would the US border situation be if I declared it as I was bringing it across ? Is that even a feasible proposition, assuming I am correct with my hunch that the U.S. market is what I need to tap into ? Any special paperwork or advance registrations needed ?
