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04-19-2021, 04:15 PM | #13 | ||||||
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My best friend has a 4E SBT--I'll have to find out the barrel length and stock type. I have shot it, and he did have it for sale for a while. They are really nice. He told me before I could borrow it, and thought about taking it to Hausmsnn's
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04-19-2021, 10:20 PM | #14 | ||||||
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According to Walt Snyder my 5E went to Phil Bekeart in San Francisco on May 31, 1929. Bekeart was a dealer and also a trap champion and sold a lot of Ithaca guns. Here is the front office of his store in SF; I imagine my Knick was ordered for stock or for a customer and of course I don't know if it passed through there, but kinda cool to think that it did...
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04-20-2021, 05:56 AM | #15 | ||||||
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I was lucky. Walt Snyder sent me provenance on all of my Knicks before the records went to Cody. One was the last Knick Sousa, the only one I've seen in original finish. They are some guns, almost as wonderful as Parker singles.
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04-23-2021, 03:12 PM | #16 | ||||||
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I got the 34" SBT info from Cody today. Shipped in April 1931 to a California trap shooter of some note. I did a quick internet search and came up with many name hits and it seems he got this SBT gun late in his shooting career. Right now I'm thinking I'll save his name and details for an article. Interesting, she was shipped from Ithaca NY to San Francisco by Parcel Post for $2.18.
Also of interest, I did a Cody request for an Ithaca NID VR Double Trap gun and got that too. Serial number would seem to indicate a 1927/28 year gun but she was shipped in November 1936. Tough days and tight money during those days of the Great Depression. |
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04-23-2021, 08:49 PM | #17 | ||||||
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I saved a picture of an October 17, 1942, Ithaca invoice, that Walter posted some years ago, for four fully loaded No. 4E double traps and two similar No. 5Es to Lou J. Eppinger, Inc. One gun had a serial number in the 448xxx range, four had serial numbers in the 454xxx range and one in the 457xxx range. By the serial number chronology in Walter's book those would be 1927 to 1930 guns.
Similarly Walter posted a couple pages of 1935 Lefever Arms Co., Inc. invoices for 250 and 430 12-gauge, 30-inch, Nitro Specials to Edw. K. Tryon. All the serial numbers in the 1927-29 range. Apparently the boys at Fall Creek had a lot of inventory to move. Sept. 1, 1935 --EXTRA PROFIT--.jpeg |
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04-24-2021, 07:47 AM | #18 | ||||||
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The best example of depression inventory problems was a Rifleman ad for Model 21s for $25.00 from Hudson's in New York.
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