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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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The one that got away! The thought of this gun and its end has always been a mental itch over the intervening years I could not scratch. Yes! The photograph is yours truly in the 1960s and the gun was a 1890s 12 bore Cogswell & Harrison side lock ejector with engraving to die for a perfect Silvers pad, but a scrapper non the less. The gun cost me the grand sum of twenty five pounds. Now the bad part it had Damascus barrels that I thickly rust blued to hide her Damascus pattern also put it back on face though one bore measured .740 with the other .743 9 inches from the breach on a cold day more on a warm day, English proof laws say it is out of proof. Well it was a Coggie! After all and a good looking one at that so I kept and used it for a couple of years then sold it to a friend,who also kept it for a year then traded it for a new AYA box lock. He told me a week later what he had done, I went the gun store to try and purchase the gun but all to late the gun had been crushed at the local scrap metal merchants. Looking back from today some 50 years that guns action would have been re barrelled just for the exquisite engraving alone. No matter how good the quality at the time the gun was scrap and practically valueless.
The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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1n the 1960's I had the opportunity to purchase a Purdey hammer gun, damascus barrels, looked good but missing one hammer. I decided to look into the cost of replacing the missing hammer. Took the gun into Powell's in Birmingham. There I met with Mr Powell [Peters, father],Who examined the gun, removed the barrels, took a pen knife from his pocket. ran the blade down the joint of top rib to the barrel, gave the knife a shove half way down the barrel, Handed the barrels back to me, a glance down the barrels showed the knife blade protruding into the bore!. The advice given was; "Young man take the gun and it and throw it the canal." The gun was returned to the seller! I leaned a valuable lesson, buyer be ware!
Roy Hebbes
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Hard luck on that gun that got away Damascus. If you still hanker after one I have a boxlock ejector Cogswell & Harrison 12 bore 28" barrels with recent nitro re-proof circa 1892 complete with oak and leather case. A light weight model that's possibly looking for a new owner. Lagopus…..
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Sidelock
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Lagopus thankyou for your extremely kind offer, But the gun is like your first love you can remember every small detail. Though there is nothing in this world that can replace that feeling of being there and doing those things. So the Coggie will remain a much thought of memory along with my first real love Janet each not to be revisited in case actuality is not as warm as the memory.
The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Damascus, I suppose we all have a gun somewhere in our past that we wish we'd never parted with. Take care. Lagopus…..
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Sidelock
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"If it won't go, don't force it, just get a bigger hammer from the tool crib--"
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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