Many thanks, Lagopus.
I appreciate your checking your Volume 3. I hope they do another print run, but that is probably wildly over optimistic.
Current asking prices are currently multiples of what I paid for this gun, and indeed most of my other shotguns.
I think Markus has nailed their date and place of business, and I see that a Whitfield next door in Church Street at the time (so likely a relative) was a maker of scales and beam balances.
When my daughter was born on the Glorious Twelth I briefly toyed with the idea of Lagopus as a middle name, but that was quickly shot down as was “Grousie”.
Parabola
