The Photo that Barry L Hands has 'Posted'is another one that he found 'digging through my Albums' when he was on his visit to the Museum of Perpetual Mess!!!McIntosh, David Baker & I had Bribed our way into tha Artillery Museum,(Then Leningrad)Our Guide used Bottles of Vodka to get us our Tour! We were the only"Tourists" that had been inside the 'Fortress Walls" for a long time.MMcI and I did a several page story in D'Cote's Wonderful'Can never throw them away' DB/Gun/Journey.The Russian Gentleman I am with is Jurij Natsvaladze. He was the "Storeroom Curator"For some reason I was given free reign' to handle,Break-Down, any of the Firearms we wanted to look at, MMcI gives an explanation in the DGJ artical)The Flint Fowler was built for Catherine the Great, it was inlaid with Gold and crusted with precious stones.I was invited into the "Back-Room" of the storeroom where Ihandled weapons owned by Czars Alexander and Nicholas.Also a LeBeau .410 db Side-Lock built for one of Czar Nicholas II's children,(Have Grand Photos of it)I found a Purdey 12b, Holland DB Rifle, Mike did the later research on the H&H, I checked the Purdey out when I was deep in JPs records on my later visit to Audley St. Back then(1991) that Storeroom was a 'Treasure Trove'of Guns. Mike writes about our Travels in USSR,as usual there is 'Humor', Like me getting MMcI chased away from the front of our hotel by a 'Large Woman' wrapped in old sacks and waving a 'Witch's Broom above her head, and screaming in Russian'Something Not Nice, I'm Sure(Good Photos of that also!!)Mikes story'Misadventures in Mother Russia', is in 'Travelers Tales' I'm sure Carol @ Gunnerman see her Ad in Dbgun Book Rack.. Whowwie, I'm knackered....Crossedchisles.
