The included Purdey letter and copy of the factory records confirm the gauge, barrel length, choke bore, large triggerguard, stock length, and action type when it was completed on September 16, 1879, for Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. Baron Alphonse de Rothschild was a French aristocrat and member of the famous Rothschild banking family. Chambers measured 2 5/8" with extractors, chokes measured modified/modified, and 14 1/4" LOP.