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Interesting; I've only seen 220s with that scene. Another "never say never".... I assume that the combination rifle/shotguns also had these scenes in that period. Anybody know?

BTW isn't the game scene actually acid etched, not die rolled in? Or am I wrong about that, too? Savage/Stevens used both kinds of decorations on various guns, but this looks etched to me.

I have some boxed sets of combination guns but none stamped.

Definitely not used for aerial gunnery instruction. Initiation into that was done on skeet fields, where the doubles on stations 1,2,6,and 7 are impossible with a crumby single shot, and darned difficult with a pump. All photos and references I've seen over the years of GI's undergoing skeet/aerial gunnery training has been with autos, doubles, and occasionally pumps. We actually missed the best bet for finding out from my 92 year old uncle who passed away a month ago. He taught aerial gunnery somewhere in Texas from 1942-1944, before finally getting re-assigned to a B-29 squadron in the Pacific.

Best bet is it was a line throwing gun or a recreational loaner from out of a PX somewhere. And don't forget the existence of counterfeiting stamps.

All this debating over this gun is moot, unless someone here actually gets/got it. Without a hands on inspection we'll never know the key details that would give a clue as to it's provenance.

Fug,

Which bird scenes do your 219's have? The "pheasant" (at least I think it's a pheasant) or the duck scene? Is it on the sides or on the bottom of the receiver? I've seen Utica 220's both ways.

i got a "monitor" single shot shotgun with the flaming bomb stamp, i got the gun in the 1980's before the fake stamps came out. apparently a guard gun, now in bad condition.
Jericho: i got a m10 smith marked RHKP followed by a rack numnber on the backstrap and a colt police positive marked the same. never saw a M19 w" marked hong kong yet, could be a private security outfit like hang seng bank or other outfit.