Not to get us too far off the track, but I'm curious why you would speculate this? I know they corresponded, but it would seem odd that someone would gift a gun to a person he'd only met once...but...

My comment was tongue-in-cheek... :corn:





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We need a better emoji for that!:banghead::rotf:

Gift a gun? Let's hear more about that.

Bill..... the Purdey.





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I think if we review the relationships among the Three Amigos, Buckingham, Dr. Norris, and George Bird Evans, we find that the two who do not seem to have met more than once are Evans and Buckingham. Dr. Norris and George Bird Evans were long time friends if I remember correctly. By the way, Dean, I found the person who placed the Norris Purdey on consignment, but he has been no help in finding the gun for us. It is in the wind.

Was he able or willing to tell you the name of the retailer or auction house that brokered the sale?

Please remind me - was that the pheasant gun or was it the quail gun?





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Dean, it was what I would call his "woodcock gun", a light, nearly chokeless one barrel gun. The other gun was a two barrel set, the one I think he left to GBE. I don't know how the woodcock gun got into the hands of the person I talked to. He didn't seem to know where it came from. He put it on consignment at a store where I saw it and waited too long to make up my mind. I haven't seen it since.

The more this thread matures, the less sense it makes. Everyone is familiar with Norris' gifting of his Purdey (2-bbl. set??) to GBE. Where did "pheasant gun" and "quail gun" enter the vernacular inventory? Were they the Norris Purdey as gifted (pheasant) then the quail gun (as GBE opened the chokes via Ken Eyster)?? Not to mention the "woodcock gun" - " a light, nearly chokeless one barrel gun". Sounds like a cylinder-bored Browning A-5 16 ga. autoloader to me, but knowing the personae involved, I would seriously doubt it. What auction house? When? Where? Someone needs to use a pulley suture in this discussion and inter-relate what is being talked about. Few if any of the cross-comments make sense or give those of us who might know more a clue as to what is being sought here.

Dr. Norris gave GBE his choice of the good doctor’s two Purdeys, one lighter than the other. The only reason I assigned “pheasant” and “quail” to them was simply to differentiate between the two, not knowing with certainty what sort of gamebirds were his quarry but presuming only.





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