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Unread 04-05-2016, 01:46 PM   #1
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Here are a couple photo/articles from my collection. Sousa shooting in 1913 Harrisburg PA. tournament. May be his A2 SxS...

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I miss remembered. It was an auction house that began with A.
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Al, I have another gun with "Sousa Lite" provenance that you may be interested in. Maybe we should talk.
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Always interested in any of Sousa's guns. I'm especially curious as to where the Purdey ended up. I am going over to the U.K. in August with the wife to visit her folks. We plan on spending a day or two in London. I'm hoping to visit Purdey and perhaps see the Long Room. If the visit goes well, I may ask to see the ledger with the order information. I know that he ordered it in 1911. London will be quick, as we are actually headed up to Durham County. Other than Purdey, Holland & Holland and the Tower of London, which are planned, any other must see gun rooms?
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Al, you can find the information on the Purdey with an email, just like you found the information on the Lindner Daly and the Remington, from me. I am getting close to the Sousa provenance on the Lindner Daly double gun as we speak. I have done it all from my desk. Sorry you aren't interested in the guns I have already provenanced. Have a nice time in London.
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Bill:

I sent you a P.M.
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Late to the party.

This might refer to the A2

Sporting Life June 19, 1909
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5315026.pdf
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5315027.pdf
Syracuse, N. Y., June 11. The fifty-first annual shoot of the New York State Sports Men’s Association was held on June 7, 8, 9 and 10, under the auspices of the Onondago County Gun Club. In the long history of these events no tournament was ever so successful. The entry list was extremely heavy and the competition, on a high plane.
The Niagara-on-the-Lake grounds adjoined the beautiful Syracuse Yacht Club and stretched up from the lake, toward a fine background, though the lay of the field may have fooled some of the contestants at the beginning.
Many notable shooters were present including a large field of professionals. J. Phillip Sousa was one of the most conspicuous of the notabilities and his witty sayings and ready answers were much enjoyed by all, and shoots the finest grade the Hunter people make in the L. C. Smith.

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Glass photo from the National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress.



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Bain Collection, Library of Congress. Glass image c.1910-1915.



Sporting Life Feb. 20, 1915



Details of the riding accident 9-6-1921
https://books.google.com/books?id=J2...gC&pg=PA33&lpg
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The gun in the first picture is in my gun safe. The Parker is not.
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It would be interesting to learn how many he actually had. Sounds like a good book project.
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I think the ones we have discussed were the ones he shot on a regular basis. Like for the rest of us, those were the few and the important. My neighbor and co-author was on the track of another one that we haven't located. JPS Jr. had a baggo guns, but that is a different situation altogether.
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