Guns & Militaria Auction
Lot 1065:
Description
Greener Mark III Police 12/14g Shotgun in very good vintage condition with some wear. The bore is bright and the action seems fully functional. This auction includes 2 rounds of the extremely rare ammo (item#58337) Comes with a sling.
The Greener Police Shotgun was developed from the Martini-Henry lever action, falling block, single shot rifle by the W. W. Greener gun company for the British government. The gun was intended to arm colonial police forces in the various countries that made up the British Empire with a reliable, low tech firearm that would be useless to anyone that the British did not intend to have it. It met these requirements because it was based on a battle proven, single shot action that was modified to accept a unique cartridge manufactured exclusively for the British Government. The modifications included a smoothbore 14 gauge barrel with a 12 gauge chamber that was bottlenecked to 14 gauge, and a firing pin with three points that would project out of the front of the breech block when it was fired; a shorter center point struck and ignited the primer, while points on either side of the primer extended into an annular groove that was cut in the head of the shotgun shell around the primer pocket. If a shell that did not possess the annular groove in it’s head were to be jimmied in to fit the chamber, it could not be fired because the outer points of the firing pin would hit the surface of the cartridge head and not allow the center point to make contact with the primer. C&R Eligible S/N:40803
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