George Bird Evans Purdey & A H Fox 12 gauges

[Bill Murphy]

Nor on a Purdey. Why are we debating the terminology used on two guns many decades ago? Who cares?

[Bill Murphy]

So, Rick, apparently from the reference in Norris's book, GBE was given the choice of one of the Purdeys, not a choice of a Purdey or the Churchill. As I recall, either the email or letter from Purdeys or a note in the case of the Woodcock Gun mentioned that (maybe) Biddle had stocked the gun. I never subscribed to that notion.