NICE DOGS-LEFEVER EE
 

It is a shame to have a gun that one never shoots. I bought this EE Lefever 12 gauge over thirty years ago and have never shot it. It was loose on face and the ejectors would eject one shell and if you stood there for a minute would fire the other one out. It was rough with a cut stock and vice marks on the barrels and hammer marks on the beautiful engraving. It spent over a year in the hospital and I just got it back. I hope to shoot it this fall at doves and at the least it is respectable now. Steel barrels.

Any thoughts on who engraved it?

that looks like e grade engraving onlefevers in the 10000 serial no range...charlie

A little higher Charlie. Mfg. 1907

Nice gun Jerry. You might want to post this on the Lefever site https://www.lefevercollectors.com/di...r-discussions/.

Not sure who the engraver is but someone there will know who was engraving during that time period.

Lefevers are great guns and need to be shot to be appreciated. I'm sure the doves are in great danger come this fall but why not introduce her to Mr. Tom this spring?

Charlie, Lefever E grades in the 10,000 range have no dogs or other interesting embellishment. The dogs came later. There are a flock of E grades in my collection, and all of them are early guns without dogs. One of my treasures is an E grade 16, the first hammerless top lever 16 made, according to the LACA bank of information.

bill that 16 ga sounds like a very interesting gun..i almost had a 16 ga lefever one time.. if we could only turn the clock back...charlie

The eyes look like Loy's but the rest of the dogs aren't quite what I would call his. Maybe an understudy of his?





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Here are the dogs on my EE. Sorry The pics were not close ups.

https://i.imgur.com/NJojl45.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0TOlGC7.jpg

Bruce,

Your Lefever EE detailed dogs make mine, well, look like Parker dogs. In fact, my EE dogs look like the dogs on most DH Parkers in my opinion.

Daniel Lefever campaigned setters fairly exclusively. I never heard of him running a pointer.