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A&S 28g Jorema Sidelock Ejector Over-and-Under Shotgun made around 1980. A true sidelock of A&S design that relies on bifurcated lumps and trunnions for a graceful, thin action profile.  

A scaled appropriately scaled to the smaller barrels and a detonation filed up in the Boss or Woodward style the gun has a single, non-selective trigger and a manual safety.  

The action has a bright, “coin” like finish with a traditional small scroll and bouquet pattern engraving. The engraving is signed: “Bruno and G. Marco Inc.” on the trigger plate.  

The 27” barrels are of demi-bloc construction which is not necessarily superior to a mono-bloc, but it does allow for a much slimmer profile when the barrels are joined, as is the case with this gun. The well struck barrels are choked at .010” and .040” and have 2 ¾" chambers. The barrel flat is signed with the first name of each maker involved in the construction of the gun and both Dante Abbiatico and Remo Salvinelli names are signed here.  who worked on this gun, as was the practice at A&S in the late 1970’s. 

The gun has a highly figured stock with a straight grip and a checkered butt and the diamond shaped hand that fades into the stock, a characteristic of A&S guns stocked by: and made during this era and a testament to the maestro’s stock making craft. 

Italy’s date code proof marks have an “A” prefix, but the second letter is not legible. The “A” prefix serial numbers ranged from AA (1975) to AZ (1990) but because of the model, the engraving, and who it was imported for (Joe Boujalad), I would put this gun ca. 1980, give or take a few years.  

The gun remains in excellent condition, retaining near all of its barrel black, high gloss hand rubbed oil finish and the locks remain bright and untarnished. An excellent gun on a lot of levels.  

A true, sidelock ejector over/under that was handmade and certainly hand engraved. Guns by A&S during this period were superb in every sense. 

It boggles the mind that this gun is priced anywhere from $5K to as much as $70K less than mass-produced and semi mass-produced guns that are laser engraved. This gun was made by the masters themselves and clear evidence of why Messrs. Abbiatico and Salvinelli are held in such high esteem. 

For those who “know enough to know”, guns like this offer one of the best values in the world today among fine guns with small-bores.

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