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GREAT thread, gentlemen....
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Harvey at the 1913 GAH  The next year he retired from traveling and became the General Manager of Hunter Arms until 1921 Sporting Life Feb. 7 1914 Harvey McMurchy, the veteran authority on guns and trap shooting, for many years the advisor of the Hunter Arms Company, and T. H. 'Haze' Keller, Jr., who covers the East and South for the same organization, paid "Sporting Life" a visit recently. McMurchy has been under the weather with eye trouble, but is now perfectly well and able to attend to business. Keller will have a territory this year that will bring him into touch with the shooters in and about Philadelphia, where he has many friends. This company is now planning for a big season with its popular Smith gun.
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Cashmore was a big name on the live pigeon competition circuit and I guess he just wanted his name writ large by way of advertising his name to other competitors. I suppose the same today if people see Perazzi or Beretta guns doing well in big events they want to go out and buy the same. Cracking gun Robert! Lagopus.....
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Cashmore was a big name on the live pigeon competition circuit and I guess he just wanted his name writ large by way of advertising his name to other competitors. I suppose the same today if people see Perazzi or Beretta guns doing well in big events they want to go out and buy the same. Cracking gun Robert! Lagopus.....
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I do find the gold inlay letters a bit more appealing than the decals that are stuck all over current competition guns. 
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lagopus,
Thanks....hope this particular gun shows up in some old photo...The last name of owner of the gun before me is Cashmore but I haven't spoke to him yet to see if he knows any of the gun's history...I assume that he bought the gun because of the matching name but don't know yet...the gun is completely unrestored inside and out which leads to a problem...the barrels are marked 13/1 and 3 1/4 inch cases...the bore measures .740 ...this means the most likely the gun can NEVER be restored...because if it were, every know-it-all and his brother would say categorically, "it's been reamed out of proof" no matter what the wall thickness...
Drew,
So busy building an addition and Ebay that I haven't had the time to post the Mc Murchy material..what little I have on McMurchy was centered around "making connections" between McMurchy, Curtiss, Fulford, Wadsworth (Waddy), Thorneley, and Lard...I think McMurchy worked with and shot with Curtiss and Fulford...Thorneley being the focus, so anything you have on Thorneley is of interest to me...Thorneley's contribution to the evolution of SxSs, though very small, is right up there with Lefaucheaux, Anson, Deeley, and Scott, yet few have ever heard of him
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Robert generally I think Americans will pay more for a British gun that is in proof but most of us will buy one that is out of proof if we are comfortable with the minimum wall thicknesses. If it has got 0.100 at the end of the chamber and the minimum from the muzzle to 14" back is .025 and I wanted the gun the fact of it being out of proof wouldn't keep me from buying it.
Best,
Mike
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If the gun is mechanically sound you can send it over for proof and recoup the cost in increased value
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