Provenance

Jay, over at MA-rooned.com has an interesting post about this 3 barreled shotgun.

He has a short history of the gun that says it "was made in April 1891 for John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow and the seventh Earl of Hopetoun."  I won't go into all of it because you really should read that on his blog.  I did, however, do some research on my own and discovered that the interesting gun was actually commissioned as a present by Hope's wife: