Ok, I owe bill another dinner. Maybe we can have it at the Southern SXS. I hope you will be there. The Parker and Ithacas were easy but the PURDEY was going to be a little tricky. I will take some more pics because it deserves it. I ordered the history from Griffin & Howe and it is 40 pages long. Very complete. It was ordered in 1923 as the first and second Sbt Purdey traps ever made. Mine is no. 2 and no. 1 is in ILLinois somewhere. I am still trying to put them back together. The person that ordered the guns was Henry Graves Jr.who, also owned many other Purdeys and other makes, also had a little contest going with Mr. James Packard. Yes the car man. The had a contest on how many things a pocket watch could do. They hired Patek Phillips to do the work and the watches were called "Supercomplication". In the end Mr. Graves watch, which had 25 different functions, won the contest. It took 5 years to make, without the ad of computers. It was at the Time Museum in Rockford Il until they closed in 1999. The watch was sold for a nice little bit of change. $10 million dollars. And I thought my Rolex was expensive. Thanks, Frank
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