Me thinks you are 100% correct. I had a good chuckle & I hope you did. So can we assume that the advert with the omitted comma is in ascending order with respect to cost/quality & your post(probably circa 1900 also?) is in descending order. Without reading 20 pages of threads, what was the 1st year that one will find an LC Smith with Whitworth tubes? Post 1884?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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