Experimental Bullpup Over/Under Shotgun with a Secret

This was Lot 1757 in the 2019 RIA December Premier auction. Sold for $2,300. This is a prototype or one-off over/under sporting shotgun, made in a bullpup configuration. It is basically two long slabs of wood clamshell around a pair of barrels, with the action at the very end in the stock. The breech rotates up to open, activated by a lever on the surface of the buttplate. That’s certainly strange enough to be int