Provenance- What do you have in your safe?

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Sorry Daryl. I love provenance on anything. Even old trucks. It took a long time to track down these pictures!!!

[Bill Bates]

This well used old post WWII Smith & Wesson transition 3rd. Model .44 Special came from the estate of the infamous Las Vegas casino owner Teddy Binion.

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by George M. Purtill

My W300 Dodge was originally bought and always used by the Idaho Fish and Game department.
It was used to stock fish in the mountains.
Now it's used to transport Charlie Purple.

That truck is way cool! What year is it. Engine, transmission?

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Originally Posted by todd allen

That truck is way cool! What year is it. Engine, transmission?

1970 318V8 4 speed PTO winch with 2 speed transfer case

[John Davis]

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[todd allen]

I have three guns with some providence.
One is a BHE 12 serial no; 132686. The grip cap is engraved with; C.D. Smith Albany GA
I believe it to be the gentleman on the right.
http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/.../id/5222/rec/2

[Harold Pickens]

Daryl, you were certainly missed at the Southern. Do the PT as directed.
Someone earlier mentioned Robert Urich. he grew up in Toronto ,Ohio just 45 min from me. I was his guide in 1989 at the National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt in Grand Rapids, MInnesota. My stepson , Jeremy, has been with me since he was 3. His father died young of a brain tumor, but he grew up with Robert Urich and they were close friends. Urich was a genuinely nice guy.

[Dean Romig]

Urich lived right up the street from me when he moved out here for the Spencer For Hire series, which were all shot in the greater Boston area. One of his motives for living here was the best hospitals in Boston... too bad they couldn't save his wife. He moved out shortly after her death.
He was a very friendly guy - a nice guy.

[Bob Brown]

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.

[King Cobb]

Rotschilds, now that is some impressive provenance. There is some great history with that family. I have a book on them and a book on the Morgan banking family and in a lot of ways it is the history of the modern financial system.