I have a Swanson shipping box in my collection. It once contained a very rare and very late #104,000 range #3 frame 32" 12 gauge lifter that was once Austin Hogan's "skeet gun" to hear Austin describe it. I chased that gun for years after seeing it in the hands of a famous Philadelphia collector, who most of us know, at a Pennsylvania Gun Collectors show at Monroeville. He offered it to me at a low price but I had no idea how rare it was at the time. I left without buying it. We were lunching at the snack bar at the time. Somehow it got to Austin who appreciated it as a "skeet gun" and refused to sell it to me at any price. As Austin would say, "We don't live forever." It was another of those thirty year searches. It is one gun that may be one of the last to go.
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