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Paul, there's not a hotter gun on the market than the Sterlingworth ejector. I luv my standard Sterly!
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Rocketman,
Could you please email me the valuation spreadsheet at:
menezesh@netmadeira.com
Thank you
Henrique Menezes
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I'd like the spreadsheet as well if possible:
dawson.hobbs@wswa.org
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Here are the ones worth knowing (London): Purdey, H&H, Boss, Atkin, Beesley, Churchill.
Birmingham: Powell and Westley Richards.
Screw the rest.
 Jagermeister, them's fightin' words! The finest gun I've ever held in my hands is a hammer William & Powell of Liverpool. I've never seen a London "best" that could hold a candle to it. 
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Similarly,
I've seen some magnificent guns by the likes of Woodward, Dickson, Greener etc...
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Jager's just putting us on, bless him. Don't bite!
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Woodward, is more a second tier gun imho.
Dickson, perhaps is the best bet to get away from the London scene.
It'd take a Greener G gun for the most part.
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How many Woodwards have you owned or handled, Lowell?
You are aware that, unlike Boss who simply named their lower grades "Robertson", Woodward truly did make only bests? They perhaps occupy an upper second tier spot for the simple facts that so few were ever made (and so had less recognition), and that they no longer exist in their own right (but were good enough for Purdey to acquire them to remove a real competitor: Purdeys properly now are known as "James Purdey and Sons incorporating James Woodward and Sons Ltd").
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So you think Woodward's "Automatic" thingy was a best gun?
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The 4 "Automatic" patent guns I've handled have all displayed best quality (as one would expect of a maker of bests); others I've seen or been told about by people who know their guns have exhibited similar quality.
I personally find the action itself to be superb in use (effectively it's a self opener on a simpler system than Beesley's patent) and very elegantly shaped, but it's not to everyone's taste. It was probably only the dominance and popularity/fashionability of the toplever SLE which ultimately killed it off.
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