I believe double guns such as that were considered cape guns. The German or European ones generally had the left barrel rifled and the right barrel smooth and the English versions the reverse of that.
I've run into a few of them but never owned one. One of the coolest ones I ever saw was a 20 gauge on the left and a 25-35 on the right. Would have liked to have bought that gun from the owner's estate but the family pilfered the gentleman's guns before the executor could get them secured.
The Germans make them with the right barrel the rifle barrel commonly. I was very fortunate to blunder onto this two barrel set at a big gun show before it got snatched up. It's 12/8X57JR and 12X12. I've had a couple others, but this Sauer is the "keeper".
The opening scene of The Red Baron shows him as a boy, hunting with one...
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