Not so typical GHE?

[Bill Zachow]

Note the hand engraved barrel logo. Could not run it through the roll stamp, as the pressure would crush the rib between the posts. That is one neat gun.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Bill Zachow

Note the hand engraved barrel logo. Could not run it through the roll stamp, as the pressure would crush the rib between the posts. That is one neat gun.

I believe ordinarily, the rib was roll stamped prior to going on the gun.

There is a great deal of information In George Madis' about Winchester roll stamps. They employed several engravers whose only job was engraving the roll dies. That had to have been a tedious job, since the letters, in reverse, were the high points and the balance was removed.

[C.O.B.]

Look at stock number 1057 at www.pugsguns.com a DH 12 damascuss on a #2 frame with the vent rib. I'm sure this is the same gun I saw several years ago as the price was $9500 now reduced to $7450. Mfg in 1895. When was the vent rib first offered? I thank my pocketbook it's a 12 not a 16

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

I believe ordinarily, the rib was roll stamped prior to going on the gun.

That would have been impossible on this vented rib as the rib was drilled for the posts and this required hand engraving as evidenced by the tops of two of the posts having been engraved with the rib logo.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

That would have been impossible on this vented rib as the rib was drilled for the posts and this required hand engraving as evidenced by the tops of two of the posts having been engraved with the rib logo.

That's why I said 'ordinarily' i.e. conventional rib.

The gun at Puglisi looks like a swamped rib.

[C.O.B.]

According to TPS the vent rib was first offered on an AH gun in 1923, there was a prototype in 1922. If this is indeed the case wouldn't the rib on the Pugs gun have been installed post production as it was made in 1895? The gun mentioned here falls into the correct time table for the vent rib but why the posts?

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

According to TPS the vent rib was first offered on an AH gun in 1923, there was a prototype in 1922. If this is indeed the case wouldn't the rib on the Pugs gun have been installed post production as it was made in 1895? The gun mentioned here falls into the correct time table for the vent rib but why the posts?

Factory-installed prototype vent rib guns were seen way before 1922. I believe there was an article in Double Gun Journal years ago about a very unusual vent rib gun down in the 171XXX range that also had a "rippled" pistol grip trigger guard (grooved to fit the fingers). My BHE pigeon gun SN 183562 had a factory vent rib with BTFE as well as a SFE, built in the 1917-18 timeframe.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

A very unusual vent rib gun down in the 171XXX range that also had a "rippled" pistol grip trigger guard (grooved to fit the fingers).

Yes, that is John Dunkle's great-grandfather's fantastic AAHE Double Trap gun that I mentioned earlier in this thread. And I believe it was the very first vent-rib gun produced by Parker Bros.






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[Twoatlow8]

All the Vent Rib guns I own are hand engraved on the rib. I have both VHE and GHE guns this way.

[Bill Murphy]

You are referring to the legend, I assume. If some say the matting was done "off the gun", then how is the matting done on the posts? Are the posts installed before the rib is put on the gun?