We can't have a wood measuring contest without pictures.

Those E grades look great Nolan! I have an EE that was given to me by a friend. I told him I would bring it back to life and return in to the fields. I replaced springs, found missing parts, checkered, then hanb rubbed the finish. It looks like a well loved 100 or so year old gun. Its a fine shooter with her 28" IC & FULL barrels. There's nothing wrong with " just a shooter ". I say use and enjoy those great LeFevers!
Chris

Quick pic of a 12-gauge H Grade Lefever with ejectors taken today while at Rock Mountain. Made about 1902 as best I can figure and her full tapered chokes measure 14 and 25 points, about LM and I-Mod. Nice combo. The ejectors are in perfect time and throw empties about 10 feet ..... much to the amazement of my shooting buds. We let one squad jump around us and the raised eyebrows were priceless when the one gent commented on the twist barrels. :)

So that's the newest addition? Great condition. How long are the tubes?

Nice Lefever & shooting Frank! Is the forend escutcheon metal, a black bakelite dog's head, or just a plain smooth black one? There was a thread in the old Lefever forum on H grades on this subject. The one on mine is smooth. Nobody knows really why all the variations. Just curious.

It is not Bakelite, which wasn't invented until 1907.

The material is gutta percha, a resin from Southeast Asia, which when warmed would be formed, stamped, etc. Then it would harden.

In that serial range, H grade guns were often seen with a plain black insert. And G and F grade guns were often seen with a dog's head stamped in that.

But variations abound.

NDG

My EE 12 I brought back to life and returned to the field.

Thanks guys. This new to me H Grade with ejectors is a 30" gun and has a steel forend escutcheon that's devoid of engraving, same as another H Grade/extractor gun I own. Also, a G Grade was facing me this morning as I opened the safe and it has an unengraved steel escutcheon. All three Lefevers are about the same 1901-03 vintage.

Just an aside here, that Dan Lefever ejector system is ingenious and uses the mainsprings (hammer springs) to power the ejectors; there are no separate ejector springs. I've now owned seven Syracuse Lefevers with ejectors and all of them worked perfectly and put quite a kick on the spent hulls. Understandably these ejector guns are a little harder to cock on closing than extractor guns.