What a marvellous find Martin, you don't come across shotguns of that age and condition every day. Excellent pictures and a history well documented.
Being born myself in the era before the British Pound went Metric and long before the creation of the Euro, I can well remember dealing in the old British Currency of Pounds, Shillings and Pence (proper money).
To give our American friends the US prices at the 1906 rate of exchange of US$ 4.90 to the British Pound.
Then the shotgun at 65/00/00 would equal...US$ 318.50
The case at 3/10/00 would equal............US$ 17.15
The cleaning tools at 1/10/00 would equal..US$ 7.35
A grand total of US$ 343.00 plus shipping.
A lot of money for the average British and US citizen given the average factory workers pay in those days of eight to ten US dollars per week.
Harry
