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Yep, I still cry myself to sleep over losing that one...I remembered the Smeets signature on the first and I also saw that the second one had a different engraver but i cannot remember the name. I had Abe Chaber look over the gun and he said it was nice as any he'd seen. We especially loved the accompanying tools in the case, just a lovely set!

Friends:
As of this evening, I have foresaken my spirit's attachement to all things Eartherial. Including Boodles and tonic. I now worship Steven Dodd Hughes. And Toledo Steel, of course.

Jokingly, Kensal

Steven, you wrote:
"Bob,
Hire me to photograph them and I'll do my very best to get them published.
You must also have a well written, good story, but magazines run on quality photography."

Steven, Let me understand this.
The Shooting Sportsman Magazine article reports the 17 finished Holland & Holland Sidelocks that their advertiser acquired, completely leaving out, ignoring the other three finished 16's that were part of the same collection, but acquired by private parties above all of the other available 12 gauge guns that their advertiser eventually acquired. The magazine was made aware; they do not want to correct their omission or tell the whole truth, saying they don't feel their readers would be interested.

You say: "I" should hire you? "I" would need a well written good story?

Is there something, anything at all "proper" about that? Was I asleep in my Journalistic Ethics class the day that concept was discussed?

I am sorry, but I am of another opinion; that being that a Magazine such as Shooting Sportsman, has, by unwritten agreement with their readers and advertisers, a responsibility, a basic, easy to understand fundamental responsibility to put forth fully truthful, fully complete, information.

Please, don't get me wrong for a minute, for I can write a well-written good story, especially with some help if and where I might need it, and, I can afford to hire someone very good, such as yourself to do the photography.

But also, please don't try to pretend that you don't also understand my point that it is the responsibility of Shooting Sportsman to do.

It is their responsibility to their advertisers who surely expect honest, completely truthful information be provided to their readers so that those people, the you and I's who read their articles expecting that they will be factual, complete, completely factual, so that they continue to buy, and subscribe. It is their responsibility to their readers and subscribers. And, if you think about it, is it not their responsibility also to the gunmakers themselves; the craftsman who hour by hour plied their trade producing the very items that we hold so dear and makes the magazine possible at all.

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Wrote opinion pieces, lectured on journalism, did radio commentary.

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Chicago Tribune
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Managed a staff of correspondents in bureaus around the nation and in the DC bureau, as well as source/copy editors in Chicago, preparing the daily and Sunday national reports and covering and analysing national news, cultural trends, politics, disasters, economics, projects, and national presidential elecitons--including the rise and election of Barack Obama.

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Served as White House and Pentagon Correspondent based in Washington, D.C. (1982-85), National Correspondent based in Dallas (1985-86), Latin America Correspondent based in Mexico City (1986-89), Canada Correspondent and roving foreign correspondent to world hotspots, based in Toronto (1989-94), Middle East Correspndent based in Jerusalem and Cairo (1994-98), Editorial Writer for foreign affairs and national security issues, based in Chicago (1998-2002).

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Harvard University
Honors BA , English and American Literature and French Language , 1972 — 1976



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1996 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and 1996 Overseas Press Club’s Madeline Dane Ross Award for the best foreign reporting showing a concern for the human condition, for a Tribune’s series, “Gambling with Life,” on why people have children they can’t afford to raise. My part was about a family in Gaza who raised their kids to be ‘martyrs’ against Israel. This series also won the 1996 Peter Lisagor Award from the Headline Club, Chicago Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

1991, 1996 and 1998 - Tribune in-house Edward Scott Beck Award for foreign reporting.

1986 National Semifinalist in the Journalist-In-Space Project to be the first reporter in space.

philmurphy,
Who are you? How do you know the person who is the subject of your post?

I don't mean to speak on behalf of philmurphy but I found the same information quite easily. It's called Google and the internet.

canvasback, the question isn't where he located the information.

philmurphy, who are you? How do you know the person who is the subject of your post?

Does anyone think the following Heinrich Barella peddled example originally was sourced from Theophile Britte??







Barella


Britte


Christophe

After Henri Pieper's death in 1898 sources give that the firm exclusively used Siemens Martin steel, so I wonder if they were sourced for tubes. PeteM can correct me, but it appears about this time that the Belgians were churning out about 1.5 million barrels a year.

Kind Regards,


Raimey
rse

Raimey, if you have access to the ejector forend, Britte produced guns often have their stamp there.

Thanks Mr. Hallquist and I'm on it like stink on a monkey. I don't know if they will remove the forend or not. Has anyone located an image of the EB trademark? I'm leaning toward the Bte. being something similar to Brevete but more like a registered tradename.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse