I was at a customers house today and we got talking about antique guns..he ask me if I knew anything about them and I said "a little bit". Turned out not. He hauls out a trash bag with a gun in it and pulls it out. Its an exquisite little double barrel shotgun. Is a 20 ga with Damascus barrels, engravings from front to back and appeared to be unfired or long ago fired and put in a closet for 100 years since.. It has a wedgepin but also had a lever on the triggerguard that broke the action and allowed loading shells. Its hammers were both exposed and had twin lockback actions, there is no firing pins in the breech, no nipples and only 2 notches in the barrels right under where the hammers hit to give a clue of how it detonates a primer? Its a ladies or child's gun apparently, very tiny and I actually thought it might be a high end antique non firing model of some type until I figured out how to break the action and realized it was real. I thought it was a muzzleloader until I looked under the hammers. There were no apparent proof marks on it, nothing at all except for a few foreign words on the barrels...french possibly but I really don't know and stupidly I didn't take pics of them. I do have a few pics of the action but my camera on the cellphone takes foggy pics at best.
I may go back and eventually make an offer on it in which case I'll document better what it is, but just for starters, does anyone recognize this action or know what kind of shells it would have taken? Thanks!