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I will shoot a couple of pictures of the British gun. The engraving is very nice with 9 birds on it. The person that ordered it was a very well off banker around 1920. He was the person that supposedly talk them into making these trap guns. The engraving was his design and was on all his guns ordered from this maker. Thanks, Frank
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Nine birds sounds like a W&C Scott. Did I guess right? I saw the birds and knew my first three guesses were in doubt.
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There is one Parker Bros., two Knick Model Ithacas, four Flues Model Ithacas and the English gun with the bird engraving which kind of smacks if one of the $1000 grade Lefevers.
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I have drooled so much over these that I ruined my screen. Thanks for sharing the lineups. The number of responses proves the popularity of these type of threads.
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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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Bob Beach provides a wonderfully complete research packet which includes not only everything Griffin & Howe has in their archives but he goes way above and beyond the call in researching any information he can find on previous owners of a gun. He follows each lead and goes right to the end of the trail on them.
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Thanks, Frank. We'll be waiting for the pictures of that Purdey.
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Trying to take close-ups are proving to be a little tough. I will try taking some outside tomorrow. Frank
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