Quote Originally Posted by Buck25 View Post
Is it possible that another example has been out there right in front of us. I was visiting the vintageairguns.co.uk picture gallery and came across a photo labelled boxed Pope. As you can see in the photo there is a Bedford & Walker Eureka with a Pope pistol. The pistols are accompanied by a hinged case along with a shoulder stock and dart puller.
Very well spotted Bruce. Everything matches perfectly, so we can pretty sure that we now have another example of the French Eureka copy. Even so, I would love to be able to ask the owner to run a magnet over it.

It is a pity that these copies were not serial numbered, to give us a rough indication of how many were made.

John