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Greg Miller
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Posted: Mon Apr 20th, 2009 11:49 pm |
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Quite a few of you have now looked at my Meriden/Remington VH, built in late 1935. It has matching serial numbers and is marked as Grade 4 wood under the trigger guard. I have been told that ther are Remington guns with better than average wood, but are any others marked as higher grade stocks vs merely being stocked with better than expected grade wood?
Everyone seems to agree that such guns existed, but curious to see if I can find some other examples. Wood was refinished after the vintagers due to an unfortunate run in with someone who thought they could install a pachmayer pad some time in the distant past. And, I had to replace the oval as it was missing when I got the gun. The pad is a modern Silver. The factory letter gave no details on the wood, but I guess that was normal by book 82. 12 ga, 1 1/2 frame, mod/full, 26".
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RICHARD L ANDERSON
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Posted: Tue Apr 21st, 2009 12:47 am |
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I have a CHE 20 that was started out as a BHE or so the story goes. The engraving is more than whats on a C but less than a B. The stock is B grade checkering and numbered to the gun and grade V.
Its possible that someone restocked your gun with a CH stock as the checkering pattern appears to be a C. The bottom line IMHO is so what. Its a great piece of wood on a nice Parker and thats all that really matters.
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Tue Apr 21st, 2009 12:49 am |
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I saw a G grade on an Internet site the other day that seemed to have B to C grade wood. Very impressive and very reasonably priced.
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Channing M. Will
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Posted: Tue Apr 21st, 2009 01:16 am |
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That stock teardrop and checkering pattern is definitely not your standard V grade, thats for sure. Is there any reference to this issue in the Parker Story? Maybe the gun was special ordered with the upgrade?
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gill frye
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Posted: Tue Apr 21st, 2009 01:16 am |
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| I examined a GH at a local estate auction a while back that had a DH stock with ssbp. The stock seemed very evenly worn with the rest of the gun, sure looked like it had always been on there, the serial # was somewhere in the 160's I think.
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Greg Miller
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Posted: Tue Apr 21st, 2009 04:30 pm |
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The numbers all match and the stock #s indicates that it is a Grade 4. The rest of thegun, however, is clearly a Grade 0 and is marked as a VH. There is no indication that the gun was fitted with the stock after the original date of manufacture, and there is no indication on the watertable that it was back to the factory. I have been told that if you had the money, Remington would in that time period build pretty much what you wanted. I have just never seen another example and wondered if anyone else had ever seen a matching number gun with a high grade stock on a 0 grade gun.
Interestingly, the fit and finish on the guns is superb. I have seen Grade 4 guns that did not have the level of polish on the frame and parts that would match my gun. A bit of a mystery. Ultimately, we will probably never know, but if I can find some other similar guns, perhaps some light will be shed. Date of manufacture was Dec 1935.
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