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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: rick6336 on February 26, 2010, 03:45:44 PM
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Can anyone help? I'm trying to get information on a Royal Gun Works Shotgun. It is a 12ga. Double barrel with exposed hammers. The only matching numbers that I can see on 3 parts..under barrels, front stock and on frame are 98xx (ser. #, I think). This has been in my family for 4 generations now. I know it is blackpowder and made sometime in the 1890's, but that is all I know. Any ideas on when it was made and what it is worth for insurance purposes.
Thanks for any help,
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Try here,
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2099
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All I know about them is that they are made in Belgium
best way to know the value for firearms is to use the blue book
https://store.bluebookinc.com/Firearms/Default.aspx
they have an online version
https://store.bluebookinc.com/InstantAccess/Default.aspx
I had a quick look and it was not on there :(
I did find this though
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2099
and another one ( more recent ) said around $500 USD
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Guns-Firearms-Projectile-1501/2010/1/Double-Barrel-Shotgun.htm
Royal Gun Works, it was manufactured by Henri Pieper approximately 1894. Values for this shotgun, in average condition (60%) run around $500. Laminated steel barrels were made to fire blackpowder shells ONLY! Clean it up and hang it on the wall. I hope this answers your questions and thank you for asking for me. Charles Gage
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I also remember that my great grandfather had it prior to moving from KY to TX in 1895.
Thank you for the links.
Rick
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Post a picture of it . It sounds like a cool piece.
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Really like to see a picture.
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If you could contact Tupelo Flash, he is a BIG TIME collector of SxS. See if M'eete or Marshal get hook you up with him.
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I'll try to get some pictures.
If it wasnt for it being black powder only, I'd use during the next dove season.
It locks up very tight, better than my Meridian.
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I'll try to get some pictures.
If it wasnt for it being black powder only, I'd use during the next dove season.
It locks up very tight, better than my Meridian.
I had litte scare with one. It wasn't a Royal, but another Belgian double hammer. I actually used it for a few dove hunts. I then realized that its cool factor was outweighed by the PITA factor and decided to part company when I needed a new flyrod. Off I go to my local (and much lamented shop) Dewings Rods and Guns, which specialized in fine fly rods and double guns. The owner looks through the barrel and has a mild coronary when I tell him I'd been shooting low brass through it.It seems not all Damascus barrels have visible wire (which I checked for). This one was internal damascus or some such and I had been playing Russian Roulette. He said he would sell it for $150 and offered me $75 cash or $100 in credit for a rod. The really funny thing was a guy was in the store with another wall hanger. He got the same deal. We both walked in thinking "free rod". Me, I took the cash. Him, he was on the phone explaing to his wife what great deal he'd gotten by selling the gun and getting a used sage for ONLY $400. "Isn't that a great deal"? ;D
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