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OWD, et al,
I have sold the Imperial Premier. I will not say how much I got for it.

Mike,
The Imperial Premier had an engraved skeleton butt plate like the one above.

Darn! But thanks for the response.

The other day I came across an online "For Sale" listing for your Imperial Premier (or at least another just like it for sale in Northern California).

The listing was old, but I figured it was worth asking, anyway.

BTW: my Premier has a horn buttplate.

Does anyone know where the other 2 Imperial Premiers are from the 3-gun order?

Thanks again.

OWD

A post I made earlier seems to have vanished.

Retriever Believer,

I remembered you had sold the Imperial but I did not think that it would be appropriate for me to mention.

As to the buttplate, I will have the 'smith check my 10ga for screw holes as I am very interested in finding out if it may have had one originally.

On the backaction Premier I bought from you. Last fall I had a chance for Toby L. to give it once over and to check on the repairs he had made for you. In his opinion that gun was restocked at some point in the past so I won't be able to check it for possible screw holed for a skeleton buttplate. Those two Premiers are my 'last to be sold, except for Grandpas guns'.

Thats one of the prettiest Skeleton Butts I have ever seen. Just amazing work.

And it is only 130 years old.

For whatever it's worth; that is one elegant skelton butt plate pictured above. I think it's been established in this exellent thread that Scott was capable of doing quality work right up there with the top tier makers. I personally feel very priviledged to own one of their high quality examples.
Jim

This has been a great thread. I became the owner of a Scott just recently and I am appreciateive of all who have contributed. I certainly appreciate the gun more today that I did when I bought it.

Thanks to all who contributed.

JDG

The only problem is that even a few years ago W&C Scotts were the real bargain among high grade English guns. Now their value is recognized due to sharing of information like we have done here. So now I can't afford guns I could a few years ago.

So the only thing we can do is keep posting more threads like this and keep driving the prices up1

OWD,
Yes, the ad you saw was old and pertained to the gun I bought. I have a lead on one of the other two, but I'm not telling. The situation is "touchy".

Aw - come on, tell me. I won't try to buy them.

Honest.

Hahaha.

BTW: I would love to know the story on how they went to China and then found their way back. Are we going to read about them in an upcoming issue of the DGJ?

Thanks, and good luck.

OWD