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Very nice! I wonder if this is an actual 'Lyman Cornelius Smith' gun. I believe that was about the time he sold out and moved on to typewriters and such.
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Grade 0 and 1 were made by LC Smith in Fulton NY, your gun proceeds that period it is Syracuse NY produced and it is a QUALITY 2 gun not a GRADE 2 Fulton produced gun. The grade numbering system changed after the company moved to Fulton. The Blue Book must only list Fulton era guns.
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And you are correct it says Quality 2 . According to the "Blue Book" the gun I have seriel numbers to 1890 , but when one reads deeper into the "Syracuse Style" guns it say by seriel number this gun was most likely made in Fulton also . It also shows the "Quality 0 and 1" in the same 1886-1895 grouping . The Blue Book says ; Syracuse guns seriel number; 16,000-16,999 18,000-20,999 22,000-23,500 And Fulton guns ; 30,000-40-334 It calls all of these as "Syracuse style guns" . To further in this grouping they show Quality 0 new 1895 Quality 1 new 1892 Quality 2 Quality 3 down to Quality 7 They also say Quality 4-7 a total of 550 produced .
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Parker’s , 6.5mm’s , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s and my family in the Philippines ! |
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The Blue Book also claims they made some 8 gauge guns from 1892-1913 I'd be intrested to know approx how many of those they produced !
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Parker’s , 6.5mm’s , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s and my family in the Philippines ! |
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Not many 8's. I think 23?
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Well that settles it !
I'll most likely never get a Parker 8 gauge hammerless , looks about 99.9% sure thing I'll never get a LC Smith 8 gauge and about 2000% that I'll never get a Colt 1883 8 gauge ![]()
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Parker’s , 6.5mm’s , Mannlicher Schoenauer’s and my family in the Philippines ! |
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i know that there was over32 of the lc smith 8 ga made but i bet the number is even higher...charlie
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Eight gauge Parkers are not hard to find, they are only hard to pay for. Smith eights are hard to find and hard to pay for.
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