Did Evans apprentice for Purdey? If so, perhaps what he was saying was he was a graduate of their program. Sorta like being a Harvard Lawyer is different than being a University of Iowa lawyer.

It has always been my assumption that he learned his trade at Purdeys, wherever he went from there.


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