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Upon closer examination of the Bores and the fact that they are of different diameter and the front sight is offset a bit over the smaller diameter bore one is left with the conclusion that this is indeed what is referred to as a Cape Gun.

I would bet the left barrel is rifled and is chamfered in such a way as to be indicative of that fact. . If this is indeed a Cape Gun the value goes to apx 2K give or take a bit. This is not a high grade gun with alot of fancy embellishment but was made to be a working gun. What makes it somewhat unusal is that it is SXS and not OU.

I have no doubt that this is an American made gun, including barrels.

American makers did not only import complete guns from Europe they also imported barrel sets for the shotguns they mfg themselves. In this era barrels were Damacus and this paticular rifel shows no indication of having Damacus barrels.