Need Information on "H. Gough"

[Dean Romig]

As for myself and most others in the PGCA we know what The Parker Story says about this person (but very little else) and briefly, The Parker Story says the following:

Henry "Harry" Gough, an Englishman, had been an engraver to the Birmingham Gun Trade until Charles A. King's trip to England. Soon thereafter, Mr. Gough is listed in the Meriden Directory as "engraver" employed at Parker Bros. since 1883.
At that time, Wm. Avery was chief engraver and Gough apparently worked under him.

The Parker Bros. "policy" was that no engraver was to sign his work but we know that a few slipped through the cracks when nobody was watching... case in point, pg. 225, fig. 8.4 an AH with "H. GOUGH ENG." blatantly engraved in the game scene vignette. And we know of another 1 or 2 where he signed his work where the trigger guard base screws into the floor plate.

What we would like to know is what you may know about "H. Gough" -what other gun manufacturers he may have worked for or contracted for - examples of his work?... examples of his signature on other guns? ... Do any of your research letters identify Henry Gough, Harry Gough, H. Gough, or just Gough? - to the best of our knowledge, they are all the same person.

What can you tell us? What can you show us? What do you know?

**********The AH pictured below belongs to a PGCA Member - not mine.************


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