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Although some would argue that Baker should be included in that exclusive list too?
And Dan Lefever
Although some would argue that Baker should be included in that exclusive list too?
I've been aware of them for a very long time but am so used to people speaking in reverential tones and from time to time hearing scary numbers that I kinda put them up there with things like Stinson Reliant aircraft and real Shelby Mustangs: always out of reach and fairly replaceable on my budgetary levels if not authentic.Beautiful shotgun. I had never heard about them, thanks for the education.
Now here's a dumb questions that comes from a the intersection of curiosity and ignorance.
Would a 1907 LC Smith (Assuming you dated it correctly) have come with that big rubber butt pad? Seems to me that thick rubber pads were a product of the latter half of the 20th century. Might it have come with a steel buttplate originally, and if so, might it be a nice touch to find a period correct one (Numrich could help, perhaps) and restore it to original configuration.
On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong and they did come with thick rubber. I just don't know that much about older shotguns.
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The Elsie could easily of come with the pad it is wearing might even put the gun in a special order category which would up its value to collectors...I would defiantly get a letter on the gun to find out how it left the factory .....
Could your Browning be the Leige model??? not a Japan made Citori, not a Superposed, but still made in Belgium...
Well, lets see, I have a poopy '73 that wouldn't go much backwards for being refinished and if someone were to say: "It's the LC or the '73!"... I gotta go '73.Had one very similar about 15 years ago, but had double triggers, and a bit of rust pits just forward of the receiver on the base of the barrels. Mine was made in the 1920's. Unfortunately or fortunately which ever the case may be, I traded it over for a 1873 Winchester, that had been refurbished.