Syracuse Arms
 

Last minute Christmas shopping at Cabelas tonight. I saw this Syracuse Arms 12 ga ejector. Loved the engraving, but had a poorly made beavertail forearm
and stock, sorry, their pictures didn't turn out.
Fluid steel barrels, serial #30xxx.
Price was $750. First Syracuse Arms I've ever seen

Oh, I'm sure Dave Noreen can tell us what grade this is.

What a steal at that price!

Does it have the ejector selector on the forend?

Grades are usually marked on the receiver flats. Stock checkering maybe does not match the receiver grade.

Did you buy it?

Well, store was closing last night. After seeing comments today, went back up this morning,and they said someone just bought it. Wonder if it was someone here. Tried to leave at 9:00, but wife needed help making her creme brulee for dinner tonight, so got there at 10. Was told I could have put a hold on it last night, who knew. Anyway, hope it went to someone, maybe from here. Not really upset, would have needed new wood.

Usually, I would have referred the question to Tom Archer who along with Jack Maedel did a long series of articles on Syracuse Arms in The Double Gun Journal. I was more into Frank A. Hollenbeck's adventures in Baltimore and West Virginia. However, recently that great New York Stater, Tom Wyraz, sent me a September 1902 Syracuse Arms Co. catalog. Syracuse Arms kind of had two lines. Their stock items were Grades-00, -00E, -0, -0E, -2, -2E, -3 & -3E, with List Prices $30 to $60. The higher grades, all ejector guns, were A-, A-1 Special Trap-, B-, C- & D-Grades, List Prices $80 to $475. The Cabela's gun appears to be a B-Grade --

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Unless you also posted this on another board, my guess would be a solid "likely". I have seen this pattern before. Often someone will make a reference to an advertisement or auction and when I try to view it, it is listed as sold.

If I post something like this, it is either about a gun I purchased or about one I saw and decided not to purchase. As we say in Kentucky "just sayin' ".