All I know about WHF's .410 AHE is what JF had told me in an email many years ago, that WHF made the decision to sell it "in order to help finance his kids' education. A good education, he believed, was extremely important." He also sent me some pictures of WHF in a 'sneak boat' he had designed with LL Bean, and a picture or two of an old house or family home here in Andover or Tewksbury next door. I sent him pictures I had taken of the Foster family headstone here in Andover that he had never seen.
I guess it could have been "the only .410 AHE" because that one, 241576 was made in 1939 - and WHF died in 1941.....
but it was sold in '39 by A&F to a "H.H. Barnard".....?
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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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