Anyone know the current owner of the gun? Possibly Dr Jim could check the SN to confirm the date of Hughes' purchase? Definitely worth a LCSCA Journal article!
Frank Hughes, Team Gold, Bronze Individual Medal http://www.games-encyclo.org/index.php?id=11109&L=1 http://www.sdshof.com/inductees/frank-hughes/ At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, the 43-year-old won a gold medal in the team clay pigeons competition and a bronze medal in the individual trap. The Sept. 2, 1924, Mobridge Tribune reported: “Never has a man gone out of Mobridge that has attracted as much attention throughout the world as Frank Hughes. His name has been featured on the sporting pages of all the great dailies of America as well as those of foreign countries. Out of all the trapshooters that participated in the Olympic contests, Frank Hughes was the only man that was invited to shoot before British royalty, including the king and queen of England, the Prince of Wales and others of royal birth. He accepted and highly pleased these people with his exceptional marksmanship.”