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Mayne shotgun

  • 11-07-2019 12:50pm
    #1
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, My father has an old Mayne shotgun side by side, I was wondering how old it is and where it was made, I know very little about guns, just looki for info on it, tia


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  • #2
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    J O Mayne was a gun-maker or retailer - opinions differ - operating in London between 1860 and 1890 or thereabouts. You don't mention if it iss a cartridge- firing piece or a muzzleloader, but if it is the latter, then that comes from the latter end of manufacturing. The colonies of Australia and New Zealand had hundreds of these guns, many still in use. From the little I've read they were good workmanlike guns of economy grade. It won't be worth much, TBH, and in any case will have been made for black powder loads and NOT for any modern loads - probably 2 1/2" 12g only.

    Taking the barrels out - it is is percussion - or off, if it is a cartridge-shooter, will reveal all the proof marks on the action flats and under the barrels. Tell us or show us what they are, and we'll probably be able to date it more accurately.


  • #3
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Something like this??

    https://www.gunauction.com/buy/7475953

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #4
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭jd06


    tac foley wrote: »
    J O Mayne was a gun-maker or retailer - opinions differ - operating in London between 1860 and 1890 or thereabouts. You don't mention if it iss a cartridge- firing piece or a muzzleloader, but if it is the latter, then that comes from the latter end of manufacturing. The colonies of Australia and New Zealand had hundreds of these guns, many still in use. From the little I've read they were good workmanlike guns of economy grade. It won't be worth much, TBH, and in any case will have been made for black powder loads and NOT for any modern loads - probably 2 1/2" 12g only.

    Taking the barrels out - it is is percussion - or off, if it is a cartridge-shooter, will reveal all the proof marks on the action flats and under the barrels. Tell us or show us what they are, and we'll probably be able to date it more accurately.

    Thanks v much for the info so far, very informative, it's a cartridge gun,
    I was trying to send a photo but can't, I'll try when I get home from work thanks again


  • #5
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭jd06


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Something like this??

    https://www.gunauction.com/buy/7475953

    Yes very similar and a cartridge gun, it also has a carving on the end of the gun( timber handle)
    Thanks, We'll probably sell it as nobody uses it now, any idea of value


  • #6
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    You might be looking at the thick end of a hundred euros, but I'd be thinking more like the price of a good fish supper.


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  • #7
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭jd06


    tac foley wrote: »
    You might be looking at the thick end of a hundred euros, but I'd be thinking more like the price of a good fish supper.

    No bother, thanksðŸ˜


  • #8
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭jd06


    jd06 wrote: »
    No bother, thanksðŸ˜

    Pics are not great, but ye get the idea


  • #9
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    jd06 wrote: »
    Pics are not great, but ye get the idea

    Ah, make that a fish supper for one, using Lidl fish sticks... :cool:


  • #10
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭jd06


    tac foley wrote: »
    Ah, make that a fish supper for one, using Lidl fish sticks... :cool:

    Ha ha ,your hard on me.
    U can see problems!


  • #11
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Hasn't been used in awhile?...Going by the spider web on the hammers?:)

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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  • #12
    jd06
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭jd06


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »
    Hasn't been used in awhile?...Going by the spider web on the hammers?:)

    Very true!


  • #13
    oldgit1897
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭oldgit1897


    Side by sides, unless something very special, like a Holland and Holland Royal or some of the other high end British makes, really are not worth much. Very good lesser makers, really excellent guns, can be had for reasonable money. A dealer i know reckons he cannot give side by sides away, which is a pity because for walked up game, they are ideal.


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