Gene

Pairs for the impecunious.

In recently looked up a number 2 gun for another member and found:-


Edwinson Green guns 6879 and 6880 were ordered as a pair for “Dick-Cunyngham” (Scottish military family), in September 1913.

The notes are difficult to read but they are steel barrel A & D guns, with “ Boss bites” and “H’???y actions”. Could very well be Holloway.

30 Guineas the pair. £18 and an E,C. Green gun appears to have been accepted in settlement.

“Stocked and finished in Cheltenham”.


They were middling price guns for a Green BLE, Green charged £35 plus 3 Guineas extra for Whitworth steel chopper lump barrels in 1895 for what is now my favourite BLE.

The purchaser of the pair from that family was probably a serving officer (not the VC winner, he was killed at Ladysmith in 1900).

I can think of at least 2 reasons why he might need a pair.

1. Invitations- he might well, particularly if on the Staff or an Aide de Camp, be invited to driven shoots and be allocated the third under keeper as loader (disbelieving “Only one gun, .. Sir?”)

2. Service abroad. If you are hundreds of miles from the nearest gunsmith a spare gun fitted to you would be very comforting .

Last edited by Parabola; 06/25/21 05:36 PM. Reason: Grammer