Lowell, since this is all about words and style and marketing and Who's Who and Town & Country, let me say this. The old status elite (in the country of your birth rather than the one of your dreams) was comprised of doctors, lawyers, bankers, preachers and engineers. Exactly the sort of folks to contemplate the desirability of the "sporting" doublegun. Farmers were busy with something closer to the bone.
By the time of the Depression, Savage attempted to turn "low end" inside out by putting two ivory beads that crack down the middle on its S/W "Deluxe". Perhaps the original bolt-on status enhancer. I'll bet a lot of well-bred lil fellers forced to take up a trade and live next the Chicago El lusted after one of those. It's all one big echo, Lowell, like the vestigial shell between the fences of a post-VJ Citori.
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