The Sept 2007 issue of Field & Stream magazine is the Gear of the Year edition. The editors first pick for a shotgun (pp. 72-73) tout a Marlin L.C. Smith (modern manufacture) 28 gauge as Best of the Best.
It's not one of the Elsie's we gab about here, but perhaps in 2107 someone will lovingly hold one these firearms and send his thoughts over the 'net to get like-minded, experienced individuals to tell him what he has?