Art:
By all means please don't "restore" these guns !! They are wonderful as they are. About the most you might do is remove to "trap" style stock extension from the one, have the wood freshened a bit, chequering cleaned up, and maybe add a repro Silver's pad to finish the butt of that gun. And please have a pro do it... not the local Gander Mountain "gunsmith."
The other gun is so beautiful as it is, that any resto work would be like painting a goatee on the Mona Lisa.
BTW... I saw the trap butt gun in Louisville myself. Thankfully, before lunch.
Best, Kensal
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