OK, I took orders for and delivered Steve's excellent guns for the duration, from prototype to the last destructive price increase. Maybe some of you experts can explain how we are to identify the difference between the "early Italian guns in the 470,000 range that are not as good as the" "later Krupp barrel guns in the 471,000 range, which are the good ones" from the "later Beschi guns that are in the 470,000 range which are not so good at all". Which serial number range are the guns with the Dutch parts in, which no one seems to talk about? Are the Dutch guns good or bad and what serial number range are they in? Strange that I didn't think to take pictures of the barrel flats and water tables of every gun I delivered. The dealers know less about these guns than the customers. It isn't our fault. We thought they were all the same except the odd badly fitted gun. Unfortunately, we don't know where the badly fitted guns were made nor can we remember what the serial numbers were.
