Note to Jeff M.
In my first awareness of well-to-do waterfowlers, there were two family choices that seemed to re-occour:
Pre-war, and of Industrial Money -- Model 21 3"
Post-war, and of comfortable travel money, suitable for annual fall trips to the Hudson Bay blinds: a 3" Belgium Browning as you describe.
The Sweet Sixteens were looked up as the Premier field gun. A Pheasant hunter with a breed-dog, store bought hunting clothes and boots, and a Sweet Sixteen ALWAYS has a well-kept late model automobile, to be admired in the farmyard, too!! ;~`)
