I did contact Cody and spoke with the curator. he said they have production records and since the gun is a Scott he couldn't help.
but someone had referred me to Stadt's book and i bought one on line. great photos. and the description matches my gun.
But the gun was not a contract gun like they sold out of the NY store. it is a Scott. none of those English contract guns were 8 bores anyway nor did they have the underlever. it also came to my seller from Dick Morgan who worked for WRA as head of Experimental.