Thanks Donnie. From what I have read, about half of the Skeet-ers produced were .410s and the 16 ga was the rarest of all.
I got my information packet from Griffin & Howe today on this gun. What a wonderful job Bob Beach does on these "letters" - Thank you so much Bob! It was sold new in September of 1935 for the hefty sum of $43.26 plus $17.50 for the Miller selective single trigger but there was no mention of the second set of barrels and forend... however, in 1944 when this gun was once again sold by G&H as a used gun for $60 I think we can safely assume the higher price included the second set of barrels.
I had hoped this gun might have been purchased by a shooter of note but, alas - it was not. Oddly, Van Campen Heilner (author of "A Book on Duck Shooting") bought an Iver Johnson .410 Skeeter with 28" barrels choked Mod/Mod from G&H just three Skeeter .410s after mine... (decoying ducks?? . . . Naah, I doubt it.)
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