Royal Gun Works Shotgun

[rick6336]

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, 

[tombogan03884]

Try here,

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=2099

[philw]

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

[rick6336]

I also remember that my great grandfather had it prior to moving from KY to TX in 1895. 
Thank you for the links.
Rick

[tombogan03884]

Post a picture of it .  It sounds like a cool piece.

[Sponsor]

[twyacht]

Really like to see a picture.

[Hazcat]

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.

[rick6336]

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.

[fightingquaker13]

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"?
FQ13