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« Last post by baw on Today at 05:55:50 AM »
In my opinion this is not a "coaching gun" but rather an assassin's gun, sometimes called a "poacher's gun". There is no reason for a coaching gun to have a takedown stock, but every reason for an assasin's gun to have one - to be able to hide it on your person, under a cloak or overcoat. The muzzzle of the iron barrel undoubtedly has female threads that the brass piece screws into. Every other assassin's / poacher's gun I have ever seen had an extension barrel of perhaps a foot long that screwed on. It is likely that the brass piece on this one was created to replace an iron extension which has become lost.