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09-12-2015 02:02 PM
# ADS
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Originally Posted by
breakeyp
To clarify and expand my comments, BSA made a new model .410 garden gun based on the then obsolete Long Lee
Enfield Rifle
. I was looking at a period BSA sponsored 3x6 bound notebook, titled, "The Rifleman's Dictionary and Pocket Book." It was written by Ernest H. Robinson and has no publication date. The front is a dictionary of rifle terms and notebook blank pages fill the back of the book. Interspaced in the book are BSA advertisements. One ad is for the BSA .410 shotgun. It fires the "new" 2 1/2 inch .410 shell and will pattern, 88% of the shot in a 15 inch circle at 20 yards. Price was 42/6. Interestingly there is another ad for the same gun in .32-40 Winchester (I have never seen an example).
From a bit of research, my educated guess is the book was written about 1912 - the author is also credited with a book entitled Rifle Training For War, which was published in 1914 and credits him as being the author of The Rifleman's Dictionary - meaning the book you have had to have been written earlier. As I mentioned in your pic thread, 42/6 in 1912 is worth about £187.90 today; I believe that's about USD$290. Seems like a fair price for such a gun, and I imagine there'd be extras available such as chequering, express sights, better grade stock wood etc for which the well-heeled sportsman could pay extra to enhance their purchase.
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