how else can you explain the incongruous combinations of game and guns
just picked up a project Elsie -- well done birds, a grouse on one side, a brace of woodcock on the other
I like the birds- BUT they are on a 32 inch barreled 8 1/2 pound 12 gauge
Not my idea of a gun to drag up an Appalachian hillside nor through an alder swamp
I have a nearly 10 pound 10 gauge grade 2 Parker hammer gun with a woodcock on the floor plate, THATS not going to happen
i know we have seen several nice Parkers with stags on them
My guess is they had patterns and unless there were comments on the order - the engraver picked what suited his whimsy for the day
how about your odd couples?