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The bushings are a repair, the plates are blued and the action is case cloured.

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The engraving on top or the fences does not continue onto the plates.

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I have now seen 3 other trade actions, that have the same distinct side bolsters.
(a Lanacster, an Osborne and a Lawn & Adler )
All of those guns did not have the plate style bushings.

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I would love to be able to send it to JJ or someone for inspection, just not possible.
It's a sh*t or Git type situation, and if the price is right, we can fix almost anything.

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The flats definitely had a V, CP, 450EX marks, right where the barrels go into the lumps,
there was another mark (very difficult to read)but on the barrel.
I think this was the GP Proof in script.
Does this follow your experience ?

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The marks you describe are normal original London proof of a .450 Nitro under the 1887 rules. The mark that you're referring to is a lion rampant of the letters GP interlaced in a cypher. It's London's provisional proof mark that's stamped when the blanks are proved prior to building the gun, and have nothing to do with definitive (final) proof.

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