By taking the barrel of the stock and looking where your barrel meet the firing pins, if you are lucky you will see a number. I have found in my research some of these little treasures did not have a heavy stamped number. Don't get fooled, these numbers are not Item numbers, This was actually a family genealogy number which kept track of the families during WW1. Some of this information has been lost throughout history, However this Inexpensive, cheaply made, Not worth much, Haaaaha, My treasure still bares my Great G Grandfather's marks of Valor as he pushed through Sicily to make sure my Grandpa a boy at that time was on the Safe boat to America, while Germany was invading Italy. Awesome gun saved lives. And the tails of the way they packed those shells. I've seen it fired once when I was little NO GIRL GUN. No amount of money can match this History I'll Keep it for the next 120 Years.
Most likely a Belgian gun. Take off the barrels and look at the barrel flats (breech end on the underside of the barrels). If you see the letters 'ELG' inside an oval then it's Belgian.
Less than $200.
It's a Belgian gun, the ELG is a Belgian proofmark.
Open the barrels and look on the flat part of the watertable (the flat part of the frame where the barrels close up) or the bottom of the barrels for the serial number
Your gun was made by the Dumoulin firm in Belgium between 1885 and 1905. Value will be under $250.
A friend of my just acquired a Wm. Parkhurst 16 gauge shotgun which appears to be a least a hundred years old. I would like to know the value of this model as of today.
The water table is that section of the frame that is covered by the barrels when the action is closed.
This is a method used to make shotgun barrels in the 1800's and early 1900's. Wires or thin steel strips were wrapped around a mandrel and hammer-welded. Belgian laminated would be one of the least expensive types of laminated barrels.
Where can I buy a forend grip for a wm Parkhurst double barrel 12 gauge
Focus on the target, ignore the barrels.
FN is one
WILMONT GUN CO guns were made in Belgium from c.1880 to c.1915. Value is going to be low, with excellent examples under $400. Please do not attempt to fire the shotgun.