Steven, You write for Shooting Sportsman, yes? Having subscribed since the beginning, I have read many of your articles.
It would seem to me that a Magazine which prides itself in servicing a very elite group of readers has a responsibility to put forth honest, factual information, when at all possible, which I believe Shooting Sportsman Magazine does, but, just as important is a responsibility to their subscribers, without whom they might not survive and their other loyal readers, to make any and all effort to make right any incorrect or less than factual information presented, perhaps unknowingly.
The recent article touted the "Jules Bury Collection" which Griffin & Howe acquired through Luc Vander Borght. It included a number of finished Holland & Holland-style sidelocks. The article erroneously establishes that there were "17" finished Holland & Holland-style sidelocks, and further establishes erroneously that they are all 12-bores.
Further the article reports that "thanks to Griffin & Howe, the entire find has been made available to the public." This is also erroneous.
Griffin & Howe may have acquired through Luc Vander Borght the "remaining" 17 finished Holland & Holland-style finished sidelocks, all of which are 12-bore,
but only after three beautiful others, which are all in the much revered 16 gauge, one of which is signed in not one, not two, but in three places by it's Master Belgian engraver, were acquired from Dessart/Pissart collection of not "17" but 20, through Luc Vander Borght who offered them for sale at a Vintage Cup event.
Does not a Magazine have a responsibility to its readership, to the makers and to the guns themselves to give validity to their existence and place in history and in our sport?
That is my question to you.
