Here are a few pictures of the 6E still looking for a barrel. I have a Silvers pad on its way.
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nice very nice... charlie

Phil, post a picture of the barrel from the rear as well as the other side so we can hook you up with a suitable barrel for your gun. I assume you have not yet found a barrel. Don't forget to post a picture of Walt's letter.

What a wonderful Ithaca :clap:

Here are a few pictures. Still in need of a barrel. Thanks for the intreast and help. If all else fails I am still planning on having a choke sleeve or thin walls installed in this original barrel.

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Walt sent me my letter today. Looks like some intreasting writing. I will try to decipher what is all written later. Thought I would post what I receieved
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I increased the size of the hand written order and here is what I have found.

Hold L.P.S. wrote about price 9/4

His letter 9/10 says cannt fford to put $75.00 ina gun.
We wrote that he could send us $50.00 and we would accept his note for $25.00 which could be paid in 9 months.

Wants to trade for a double gun belonging to Mr Suarts and a diff which he thiks is about $50.00 without pad.

Our prop to Mr Suart was $75.00 without pad.

His letter 9/21 says accepts our prop of the 15th.

Wrote on 10/30 had Indian on one side man on other.

Sept 7, 1915
R. g. Weir 167 Stephenson St Freeport Ill

6E single 34 2 heel 1 1/4 comb 14 1/2 close even pattern with 3 drams powder 1 1/4 7 1/2 shot

Make stock 14 1/2 Silvers 9/2

My friend Walt Snyder is one great historian. Thanks, Walt. See you next month, I hope.

Wonderful Ithaca Flues SBT of the first style. I'll bet that was 3 drams of DuPont, Schultze, E.C., Empire, Dead Shot, Wolf, Curtis & Harvey Diamond Grain or Mullerite bulk smokeless. No trap shooter in 1915 was using black powder, and very likely damn few during the previous twenty years! By then black powder was only being used by the poorest of tenant farmers and sharecroppers, not gents who frequented trap fields with their 6E Ithacas.

One of the reasons I enjoy collecting these fine old guns. The great people you get to know, and the wealth of knowledge they share. I hope I can make it to the Southern next year.
I received an original red Silvers pad today, and will drop it off tomorrow at the Smiths. I will continue to look for a early gun with 34" barrels I can use. Thanks again for the information and camaraderie shared on this site.

Phil