Some tangential information on Burgess Gun Co...
It's been reported by Gun Digest, that double barrel shotguns were produced at the Burgess factory in Buffalo, NY....The guns were damascus, and were built under the supervision of Loomis...I have seen a fair number of Loomis doubles over the years, and all but one were imported JABCs with the Loomis name on it. Gun Digest wasn't clear on what name appeared on the doubles (Burgess or Loomis), but a good way to identify a original, would be the absence of foreign proofs.
Twenty years ago, the Garret family was still in possesion of Pat Garret's folding Burgess pump shotgun. Andrew Burgess' family beleives that Andrew, who had once worked for famous Civil War phototographer Mathew Brady, shot the photo of Lincoln, that was used by the US Mint's engravers for the engraving that we now see on $5 bills. All this according to the Burgess and Garret families.
