The Frederick C. Scales Gun, Part II

A gun's origins become more mysterious before a riddle is solved

[img 1 right caption=The Frederick C. Scales Gun] When I left off in May/June, the Frederick C. Scales gun was in northern England, in the hands of restoration specialist John Foster, and was being prepped by Foster's associate Graham Bull for shipment to new owner Richard Raymond, in the US. As you'll recall, the gun had been built and finished more than six decades earlier by Scales-one of Purdey's finest craftsmen-ironically on a reworked action made by Purdey-archrival Holland & Holland. A series of articles by British gun writer Geoffrey Boothroyd had brought the gun to the public's eye and lent it an aura of mystery.

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