Case Color:
My best example is from 1904, but similar to a 30’s DHE I previously owned. Seeing this photo reveals a bit of crud near the trigger bow I hadn’t previously noticed. I added the old “outhouse” hammer gun for comparison.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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