Originally Posted By: jack maloney
According to Cooley & Newton's book Cogswell & Harrison, two centuries of gunmaking, C&H occupied 226 Strand from 1882 to 1928, and 168 Piccadilly from 1917 to 1982. The years the two addresses overlapped were 1917 to 1928, and I would assume your gun was made during that time.

Cogswell & Harrison today has the old C&H archives; check http://www.cogswell.co.uk/archive.htm# For $50 or so they will look up your gun and provide a Certificate of Origin, including when and where it was built, and for whom, original specifications and selling price. Pretty interesting stuff which I found well worth the money.


The other interesting thing about this gun is the LOP which is 16 in. and is cast on for a lefty. The stock appears original so it would be interesting to know who ordered the gun back then with such a long LOP. I actually won the gun and kept it because it would be easy enough to fit to me when I was ready to play with it. As it is I shoot an LOP of 15-3/8, so one bend and a little shortening would be all it takes.