Today’s Delivery:
 

This 1894 Remington was a sleeper on GB. My only competition was MikeeJ99, the plaid cloth fellow in Kansas. The bidding ended on a Sunday and think he was asleep at the switch, for which I am grateful.
A 1907 “BE” Grade with 30” Damascus barrels. Semmer’s says that it was the last ‘94 made that year. I’m not sure how he determined his figures.
The unusual feature are the checkered cheeks, not customary for “B” guns. The front bead and mid-bead could be ivory.
The bores are immaculate and luckily the barrels don’t require any professional help. The LOP is 14-1/4” over a leather faced red Silver pad with a “widow’s peak” (Neidner) spacer. Choked a bit tighter than Modified with my simple bore gauge. The BB counts on the rear lug are 365 and 360, I like those numbers.
So, after taxes and shipping a pretty decent find for $977. MikeeJ99 bid up the opening of $800 by $59. My bid of $864 stuck. I’d do it again. I’m just really glad those checkered cheek panels weren’t hiding something ugly because the auction photos were really poor. It was listed as a “no returns” item and whew, lucked out again!

Bruce, what a nice find. Congratulations.

In Chapter XVII of Semmer’s book he mentions the “OC” Doubles. One particular stamp was to blame for the “typos”. He says the oddity occurs in ‘98, ‘07 and ‘10 guns. Said he hasn’t seen many and considers them scarce. Check the photo.

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A few more.

What a beautiful gun! You can't even buy a high-end pellet gun for that!!

A wonderful score❗️❗️





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Silver Pad:
 

It’s only leather covered on the butt end, not the sides. Looks like pig skin.

The only wear I see is from open and closing. You can usually see a ring from the primer wearing the breech face…nada.

What a great gun and a great deal you got. Makes me want one.

That is refered to as a leather-faced pad. I’d leave it as is.

Morris Baker has kept Burt Spiller’s VH 20 all original. The leather-faced pad is terribly deteriorated… but it’s original.



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