Quote from Carignan_Salieres on 03/03/05 at 4:56pm:I got this information from Graham Greener.
Approximate dates of Greener made Martini's.
Rifled actions from the late 1860s to 1967.
GP shotguns from 1922-1998.
Police guns from 1922-1967
EG shotguns-Egyptian Ghaffir Police Force, about 37,000 made from 1922-1938
thought this might be helpful to some.
-Ryan
36 years ago I bought a near mint Martini Greener �by my favorite gun shop in Genova (Italy) and after a couple of years I resell it to reduce my collection but I loved that gun so much and now you can help me telling what kind of Martini it was.
The bore was 12 gauge but the chamber was strangely stepped and from the breech block did protrude the firing pin plus two small sectors which would mate a cannelure in the case head. It was stocked up to the muzzle and the steel rounded nose cap did protrude a bit beyond the muzzle.
It has all the characteristic of a riot gun but chambered for a very unusual 12 gauge shotshell.