I have just been browsing through Richard Milner’s excellent article (HBSA Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2 December 2000) which contains a digest of Edwinson Green’s surviving records between 1881 (S/N 3199) and 1947 (S/N 7091).
Those records appear to have been the Order Book for the Cheltenham shop (he had a branch at Gloucester) and more often than not do not show the serial number but almost invariably show the calibre. Mostly 12 bores, some 16s, some 20s, a few 10, 8 and the occasional 4 bore.
The shop traded into the 1970’s run by Dudley Green, the grandson but 1947 seems to have effectively marked the end of Edwinson Green guns made by or for them in their own serial number range.
What struck me was that of their own build over almost 70 years and approaching 4,000 guns they seem to have produced precisely ONE .410
No. 6922, a double hammerless ejector in June 1914 for Tweedie.
I am sure that in the same period they must have sold a good few .410’s of other makes.
Last edited by Parabola; 10/23/22 02:53 PM.
