Hopefully, Graham Greener can provide you a model number as well as a customer name. The lack of a safety is a puzzler, which might, as you conjecture, indicate an intended purpose as a pigeon gun or possibly, I would add, as a fowler. Greener used a high percentage (70%, as I recall) of steel in his damascus barrels. Greener's damascus barrels, by the way, if in good condition and possessed of sufficient wall thicknesses, especially those used on the company's higher grade guns, are perfectly serviceable to-day if one uses low-pressure cartridges of correct length. The 'sterling steel' likely refers to a type of or marketing name for its damascus barrels. The 'Triple Wedge Fast' action refers to Greener's strengthening employment of Purdey-patented double underlugs/bites and the Greener carefully fitted cross-bolt in combination with a precisely bored barrel extension. Although, I would venture to guess that it is a Facile Princeps self-acting ejector or perhaps a 'Unique' action-ed gun, based solely on the fact that these candidates were in production at time your gun was completed.
Without informing photographs of your gun, however, I am at a loss to correctly identify it. Only the best, specially selected craftsmen (10-12 men) built Greener's higher grade guns in a wholly separate area of the factory. The building of lesser grades by Greener took much less time and was performed in a different area of the Greener factory. For example, my self-acting ejector G60 grade 'Royal' needed some 7-months before it was completed the following year. With respect to the time consumed from start to eventual completion, this depended on the gun's grade: Higher grades required more attention and time.
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Tom, given its serial number (33517), your gun was completed in 1891, according to the appendix referenced at the back of Graham Greener's The Greener Story. Luck is the residue of good intention and hard work. No rust and the overall original colour case hardening on the action indicates a minimum of use.
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It is choked full and full with full nitro proofing with appropriate stampings under the barrels block.
It does not have safety which leads me to think it may have been a pigeon gun ?/ Any information as to model, grade, year of production, etc. It is a boxlock, greener cross bolt, marked on the barrel 'Patent Treble Wedge Fast' and 'WW Greener.
I just acquired an old Greener double in about 85 percent condition. 118 or 11.8 over 12m (both barrels) Not for Ball on left. Barrel marked with crossed sceptres with crown on top and crown with double scriped B's (Birmingham proofs). If I remember right, top rib marked 'W W Greener and Son works Birmingham'.