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I've been lurking around at this site for awhile, but this gun is going to make me comment>.

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nice first post Ringo, thanks! This being California, I don't get to pick it up until the 17th, but I have had it in my hot little hands,and the engraveing looks factory [I had a brass frame .36 Remington with almost exactly the same coverage and style] but it also is deep, like hand engraveing, so I don't know.The engraveing on the hammer looks stamped, and on the cylinder it's a little shallower.
 
BHP FAN said:
nice first post Ringo, thanks! This being California, I don't get to pick it up until the 17th, but I have had it in my hot little hands,and the engraveing looks factory [I had a brass frame .36 Remington with almost exactly the same coverage and style] but it also is deep, like hand engraveing, so I don't know.The engraveing on the hammer looks stamped, and on the cylinder it's a little shallower.
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That is what is referred to as "photo engraved".
Think of it like the sandblasted glass art you see in some restaurants between booths. I believe they use some sort of electrical etching process.
All the same, very handsome and the "engraved" ones like that do bring a premium compared to the others.

I'm not sure about the 1890 model but the very first cartridge Remingtons that Uberti produced had the "post" front sight (like the 1858 which is actually a "New Model Army") and the original Remington catch fro the cylinder pin (out on the muzzle end instead of at the front of the frame like yours). We commonly call these the Uberti 1st style. These are usually marked Replica Arms on the barrel top.

The Second style still had the post sight but had the Clot stle cylinder pin latch like yours and the brass trigger guard. Usually marked Navy Arms and/or EMF.

The third and current style has the same latch as the second style but also has the "flag" or "sail" (same as the Italian Uberti Colt clones) front sight and somewhere in production (probably the 1990's) they changed the trigger guard to steel.
 
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Thanks to HH I was able to locate this EMF catalog page from my stash of old wish books.
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I would have to harbor a guess and say that the 1890 probably always had the "sail" or "Colt" style front sight based on this advertisement.........I believe that they weren't made in what I called the "first style".

You do know that Remington DID NOT do color case frames. That is an Italian thing.......

BHPfan, I really like the repro grips on the lower pistol in your post above! Everytime I see a set on an 1875 I think, "I gotta get a set or two".
 
Looking over all these Remmies made me want to spring for one. Looked at Cabela's and the price for a SS is about $325.00 +/-. Sunday a man I met some time back approached me about selling his 1858 SS Rem. that his son bought for him a few years ago. It has never been fired because the man is scared to death of Chain fires. Only gun shop within a 30 mile radius scared him so much that he wants to sell it for around $250.00 with all the accessories and a holster. Just need someone to push me that extra nudge to buy it.
 
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