For me heritage is a big part about owning these guns.
Here is an engraved shield on a 12-gauge DHE that was shipped from Meriden to William Read & Sons, of Boston, Massachusetts in 1916.
My father acquired it from a local sporting goods dealer 23 miles West of Boston in the early 1970s.
I have had no success coming up with who might have owned the gun with "S. F." on the shield, but I am keeping it intact, so as to not foreclose any opportunities to some day connect the shield with the gun's original owner, who likely lived and hunted near me.
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