Burt (Bert) is in an 1895 picture of the Remington Arms Co. Shotgun Department I have, and has stated that he made their guns for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis in 1904. Becker first appears in the Philadelphia City Directory for 1909. Burt was born in 1871, so would have been pretty young to be working on those Parker Bros. guns for the Columbian Exposition?!?
Mike McIntosh writes on page 213 of his Fox book that Burt apprenticed at Lefever Arms Co. and then in 1889 went to Batavia (Baker Gun & Forging Co.?). Mike writes he went to Remington in 1900, but my 1895 picture says otherwise. Then again, the January 22, 1940, Utica Observer Dispatch that published the picture and said it was from 1895 could have been wrong?!?
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