I have that impression, as this fellow was the Queen’s Gold medal winner in 1905, and was assigned as an instructor at Hythe during World War One. Someone with the same name ran a pub in Hythe next door to the address on the shotgun, and was apparently called as an expert witness in a coroner’s inquest. Fascinating bits of history, but they tell me little about my new double.


The one I purchased appears to be Birmingham proofed between 1925 and 1954