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I just noticed that there is one of our Beloved Pigeons on this Sauer example.

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A summary of matches, including Monte Carlo, 1865-1892. Some big $ matches! $1000 in 1890 would be > $30,000 today
"The New York Clipper Annual", 1893
https://books.google.com/books?id=Vmg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60&lpg

Another youtube, which appears to be 1947; Campionati di tiro a volo della Milizia. La Coppa del Re e del Duce


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Simson Modell Monte Carlo recently acquired by a fellow collector. The adornment is by Gottlieb Ortlepp, a local contract engraver that worked for Simson.

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Ja, eine scheissevogel mit un bockflinte? Vas ist Los?? Der Fuchs

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Simson Modell Monte Carlo



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Beautiful engraving, but those birds ain’t sitting in South Dakota. wink

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Indeed, Graveurmeister Gottlieb Ortlepp just had to see the critters in the Wild, but not in Kansas or South Dakota for sure.

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Notting Hill 1879
https://books.google.com/books?id=T0U9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg

American Shooting Association Rules, "Sporting Life" 4-5-1890
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/49988/rec/4

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Guns had to weigh < 8# at the 1894 GAH

Sporting Life. John L. Lequin, secretary of the Interstate Association, writes us under date of Feb. 25, 1898 as follows:
“We have received inquiries from most all directions recently from a number of shooters who are probably desirous of entering the Grand American Handicap next month, concerning the weight of guns, and whether the handhold and recoil pad will be counted as a part of the gun when weighed. The subject has been placed before the Tournament Committee of the association, which committee has decided that the guns will be weighed naked.” (The "recoil boot" and hand guard were not part of the total weight)

The Baker Gun Quarterly, Volume 5, No. 3, May 1900 had an article on the weight of Trap/Pigeon guns used by Capt. A.W. Money (8 pounds - Money used a Greener, Smith, and Parker), C.W. Budd (7 pounds 14 ounce Parker), H.D. Bates (winner of the 1900 GAH at Live Birds; 7 pounds 13 ounce Parker), R.O. Heikes (7 pounds 15 ounce Parker but after the GAH at Live Birds he went back to his Remington hammerless and won the 1900 [1st] GAH at Targets), J.S. Fanning (7 pounds 15 ounce Smith), W.R. Crosby (7 pounds 12 ounce Baker), and Col. A.G. Courtney (7 pounds 14 ounce Remington CEO).


"The Art of Wing Shooting: A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shotgun", William Bruce Leffingwell, 1895
https://books.google.com/books?id=e34EmE3tkfkC&pg=PA177

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Wrong again frown

"The Illustration London News" 2-4-1911 states that M. Adolphe Dennetier built the platform for the pigeon ring
https://books.google.com/books?id=F1tjgl4sr6sC&pg=PA168

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and "Journal De Monte Carlo" 2-6-1883 announces his death
https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var...ion/3eee415b3c183bdde71c158039aeebdb.pdf

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SO the pigeon ring platform was probably constructed at the same time as the train station below the casino (1868) which would fit the first Grand Prix du Casino in 1872. From the illustrations and images however the clubhouse, pigeon release control, and walkway were clearly rebuilt at some point prior to 1900.

A report mentioning Dennetier in 1875
10 birds at 27 1/2 yds. and 10 at 29 1/2 yds.; won by Capt. Aubrey Patton with a Stephen Grant
https://books.google.com/books?id=JS8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg

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