Spence was one of those "feel good" guys to me. I never knew he had lost his legs. In the 70s he wrote an article that included Baker shotguns-------I think a boxlock, which was rare in Bakers. I saw the picture in Outdoor Life or some similar magazine. This was before the internet, so I wrote him a letter about one of the guns pictured. In short, he put a price on it and I bought it. It was a nice gun and I wrote him a letter, thanking him for the gun and it's nice condition. He wrote a lovely letter back thanking me. He said most guys don't write or maybe they even [censored] a bit, trying to get a lower price. That was the first letter of that kind I ever got. He must have been quite a fellow. Thanks for letting us know.
