Josh, as I said in my email to you, I have been working on an article for nearly a decade but keep running into problems with the photos. I went to Texas back at the beginning of this project and handled the gun I told you about, an A-grade T/A hammer 12 ga. pigeon gun and I took a lot of pictures of it. The pictures, however, didn't turn out good enough for publication. In the meantime I have done a lot more research on the original owner and have turned up a lot more information.
I have related before that my aunt, in the Cleveland area was one of the domestic help for the Brown family, specifically the last of the Browns known only to me as "Mrs. Brown".
Harvey Huntington Brown was the man for whom the gun was originally made. He inherited the iron ore freighting business on Lake Eire and others of the Great Lakes from his father, Fayette Brown, and built upon that to finally amass a fortune in the shipping and ore business.
Ed Muderlak wrote about Harvey H. Brown on page 308 of his book "Shooting Flying and the American Experience" of when HHB won the coveted Lorrilard Medal but returned it in a vengeance because he was against the way the pigeon shoots of the day were stacked in favor of the professional shooters.
In any case, a story in Parker Pages or the Double Gun Journal will someday be published.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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