Thanks- made me think of Hemingway's now long-lost G&H Springfield Sporter- with a detachable scope mount, ref: Silvio Calabi et. al- "Hemingway's Guns pages 76-77: " sn 956 G&H number-- G&H signature single lever mount, 2&1/4 power Zeiss Zielklein scope, and Heiser leather case for the rifle, and a separate one for the scope.
Hemingway, right handed, but plagued with vision problems all his life, mainly in his right eye, soon removed the scope and never used it on his Springfield- in MT. ID. or Africa-- Wonder where all of those items are today-- Reportedly, the rifle was left to second son Patrick following Hemingway's suicide in 1961-- later stolen from Patrick's home in MT in the late 1970's.
Somewhere, someone may have this G&H Sporter-- a mystery indeed. Hemingway used this G&H rifle a great deal, a statement to the faith he had in its stopping power and reliable function-
