I still have an Army & Navy .450 Nitro double rifle. It is built on a standard action, perfect in every way, but lacking a bit of the engraving commonly seen on these rifles. I even have the "import license" paperwork when the Brit. soldier took it and exactly 21 rounds of Kynoch ammo. into Kenya in 1928. Many years later a writer nemed Howard French featured this exact rifle in the 1989 Gun Digest article, "Double Rifles Had Glamour".
Anyway, Army & Navy arms were certainly high quality, generally made by the big gunmakers and branded for A&N distribution.
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