In the 1960's Whilst on one of many visits to William Powell's, Carrs Lane, Birmingham. I had an interesting discussion with Mr Powell [Father of Peter] on the subject of hammer guns. At that time they had available for sale a Purdey hammer gun. As I recall, a bar action, top lever with Steel barrels. Price about 110 pounds. Mr Powell commented, "British hammer guns are the most under valued antique in the country!" To day you would be hard pressed to buy a gun such as this for less than 5000 pounds!
Sad to say your observations are so true, I opted to purchase one of those AYA's!
