Ithaca 4e
 

Just got an Ithaca flues 4e 20 gauge circa 1910 has a red pad that is in pretty bad shape what kind of should I replace it with that’s correct I think the pad that is on it now must be original, do you guys think that at that time you could order a pad for it, also can I get a letter on it and where? Thanks
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Silver's orange pad

Ithaca 'sunburst' pad would look nice but I've read that the sunburst pad wasn't available until 1932.
And yes, an original owner could have ordered a pad on his new gun.





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Reproduction "sunburst" pads are available-- My 4E 16 is wearing one. Shot it today at Hunting Hills Vintage shoot, but yeah, a Silvers orange pad would look good. I love my 4E 16, shoot it better at clays than most any other SXS I own.

true according to Walt Snyder

The only recoil pad listed in the 1912 Schoverling, Daly & Gales catalog is the Silvers recoil pad with the spur. By the 1915 H & D Folsom Arms Co. catalog the American made Grieb Recoil Pad, very similar to the Silvers was also being offered. By the 1916 H & D Folsom Arms Co. catalog the number of players in the recoil pad market was exploding. Jostam was organized in 1914 and their Anti-Flinch recoil pads were being offered as well as the Huntley, the Goodrich and the Perkins recoil pads.

As for a "letter" on a Flues Model Ithaca, Walter has sent all his Flues era records to Cody. Who knows how long it will be before, or if ever, they add Ithaca letters to their offerings.

I have been advised by the Cody Museum that Ithaca factory letters will be offered by early fall of this year.

Well that's a lot sooner than a lot of us thought it would happen. That's good news.





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That is amazingly quick progress on their end. Nice service to have at our disposal. Thanks for the info.

I think they have had the research material for more than two years. I don't remember what year I spoke with Walt about a research letter and he told me he had sent all of his research material to Cody months earlier.





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