Pictures
 

Here are some pictures.

Pictures
 

One more picture of the "Special Steel"

You have a 1920 GHE on a 1 1/2 frame with Parker Special Steel barrels and a straight grip stock worth well more than the 600 you paid. The buttplate and LOP are the only issues I see and a good gunsmith can do a simple and relatively inexpensive fix of that. Spreader loads will take care of the chokes. Or, as BD says, hit them in the head. Pictures of the sideplate and trigger plate engraving would be nice. This gun is not in the serialization book but you may be able to get historical details with a research letter. Nice find.

Sideplate
 

Here is a sideplate view.

Nice G engraving for the period. Almost looks like a pheasant instead of a turnip.

That looks like a great buy for $600. Does look like that forearm pushed down a few too many barbed wire fences!! Getting new ejector forearm wood made would be a bit expensive, but that and a nice Silvers recoil pad would certainly make it a very nice looking package.

I'm primarily an upland hunter and skeet shooter, and I don't share some of the other member's aversion to opening chokes. My guns with open chokes or chokes that have been opened get most all of the use, while those that still have their full chokes spend most all their time in the safe.

No, no, no... the 'turnips' are early renditions of ducks, not upland birds.





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An ejector gun too! A big plus.

The forend wood looks like toast.

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;207153]No, no, no... the 'turnips' are early renditions of ducks, not upland birds.


Take a good look at that receiver again (you may have to hold it upside down) - No duck you know of has a tail that long with a topcrest on its head!! Them are Iowa roosters, pure and simple!!!

I think what Dean was saying is that my metaphor was misplaced, not that the engraving showed ducks. He is quite right.