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Haven't seen one of these before -- https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/remington-shotguns-sxs/remington-model-1894-factory-cutaway-12-gauge-very-rare.cfm?gun_id=101276226 https://i.imgur.com/L0xCVvW.jpg From the second 1901 Remington Arms Co. catalog -- https://i.imgur.c...

Here are a few more pictures --

I believe this spurred, leather-faced, Silvers is original on my DEO-Grade 16-gauge --

While the "standard" barrels of the Remington Repeating Shotgun/Model 1908/Model 10 was Remington Steel, in the pre-WW-I years the option of an Ordnance Steel barrel was offered. From the 1909 Remington Arms Co. catalog -- Remington Repeating Shotgun 1909 catalogue 01.jpg Remington Repeating Shotgun...

That serial number chronology for 12-gauge Model 11s is right on with the old factory ledger when the ledger starts in 1919, but it is 10K off by 1931?!?

From the 1936 Salesman's Portfolio --
From the large 1938 Remington retail catalog --

The gun is one of those transition guns with the concave rib but still with the company name roll-stamped on the rib. See The Double Gun & Single Shot Journal, Volume Thirty, Issue 2, pages 42 to 53.

The system wouldn't let me post more then five pictures. Here are the two showing the plugged sear pin hole on Q355073 --

Good article on a transition KED-Grade in the Summer 2019 issue of The Double Gun & Single Shot Journal , Volume Thirty, Issue 2. The gun discussed is serial number Q354886, which has the early style stock and frame, but with the early sear pin hole plugged and a new sear pin hole in the late style ...

1. Not that I know of.

2. No.

3. Only a well advertised, no reserve, auction can tell that. Very likely the cost of a correct restoration by one of our present day masters would far exceed the market value of the fully restored gun.

How about this lovely example of a Remington Hammerless Double Barrel Shotgun?

https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns- ... =101256353

FWIW here is a hang tag from a couple years earlier Remington New Model Double Barrel Shot Gun --

It certainly can be confusing for the newcomer. From the get go of cartridge shotguns here in North America, the "standard" length for 12-gauge paper shells was 2 5/8 inch, but 2 3/4, 2 7/8, 3 and 3 1/4 inch 12-gauge shells were available. For England and Europe the 2 1/2 inch (65 mm) shell was the ...

Surviving hang-tags show that at the time your gun, 250182, was built, Remington Arms Co. was targeting their 12-gauge guns with the Union Metallic Cartridge Co.'s ARROW shell with Load No. 8, with #8 chilled shot. Load No. 8 was 3 drams of bulk smokeless powder pushing 1 1/4 ounce of shot. From the...

According to the serial number chronology produced from surviving shipping records by the late Charles Semmer for his book Remington Double Shotguns , 250182 would be from 1905. The Remington New Model Double Barrel Shotgun was made in seven qualities from No. 1 to No. 7. The three lowest grades wer...