No mention of that in the correspondence. Only an allusion to a centrefire hunting rifle he was thinking of having built next.

Edit: I pointedly asked the second owner, who was a close friend of the man who commissioned the customization, and he almost immediately replied, "I believe he had the Springy done up because that was the thing to do in those days."

Woof.

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