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There is a photo of the elderly B-U-R-T Becker in one of Tom Kidd's early articles in Double Gun Journal. That is the only photo I have ever seen. Kidd's articles in DGJ are the most authoritative on Becker and his guns. Mike MacIntosh wrote a short article in Sporting Classics 20 years ago or so that summarized Becker's career (with a number of errors). Nash Buckingham's autobiography has a short section on him where Becker famously answered some questions on his career for NB and a letter on BB stationary referring to Bo Whoop II is reproduced. George Bird Evans has a bit about him in his NB compilation, "Best of NB". Askins, Sr. mentions him in "Modern Shotguns and Loads" as does Harold Sheldon in the forward to one of NB's books. Like Jesus Christ, contemporary mentions of Becker are few and far between.
