Stanley 12 gauge shot gun double barrel rabbit ear that has TWIST on the barrel and you are trying to figure out how old it is?

Answer 1

This shotgun, which was apparently made in Belgian and imported by the H & D Folsom Arms Co. was designed as a low cost "hardware store" gun. The fact that it has "twist" (damascus barrels) and exposed hammers implies that it is probably no less than 100 years old. Unfortunatly the records of the H & D Folsom Arms Co. are no longer to be had, as such getting an any more than an approxmate age is probably not possible. My, very uneducated, guess would be sometime between the late 1880's and 1910.