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Originally Posted by Stan Hoover
Great info Dave,
Appreciate your knowledge and input.
I thought perhaps the gold setter with bird in mouth were a late NID Grade 7 feature, but obviously that is not correct. The 2 Grade 7’s ordered by George H Ryman are late guns, any chance you have the serial # on the 410?
The bull elk has grown on me some, but the Grade 7 that I regret not buying had a gold dog on the trigger guard, I don’t remember the other features of that particular 7, but that gold dog I can still picture like yesterday.
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The .410-bore is 467672. George Ryman must have had an "in" with someone at Ithaca to be getting those high grades direct in 1947. All the Ithaca post war paper states that they don't accept orders from consumers or dealers and that all their production, which is far from meeting demand, goes to their Jobbers. Also states that only a limited number of doubles would be produced and just in Field Grade and No. 2E.