I have a 1 1/2 frame DH 12 that was ordered by the pro shooter Keller who has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread. It lettered with it's unusual choke set up as full right, cylinder left.
I bought a GH with a factory engraved trigger guard with Robin Hood on it out of Ontario. It wasn't original to the gun, so I sent in for a letter on the serial number stamped on the underside. The original gun was a BH trap gun built for a pro shooter out of the Fargo-Moorhead area. It was ordered by and shipped to a dealer in my home town of Winnipeg. His name was Ferguson and he occasionally shot professionally under the name Robin Hood. It took a couple of years to click, but I realized later that I already had the SSBP off that BH that my father (who still lives in Winnipeg) had given me a couple of years before I bought the GH. The butt plate had two serial numbers including an earlier one. The letter stated that Ferguson supplied the butt plate.
I also have a 16 bore, push forward under lever, bar in wood Purdey hammer gun, completed in 1878 for the Baron Anthony Rothschild, banker to the British court. Looked into their family history a bit. Very interesting and powerful family.
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