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Originally Posted by Craig Larter
Grade 0 and 1 were made by LC Smith in Fulton NY, your gun proceeds that period it is Syracuse NY produced and it is a QUALITY 2 gun not a GRADE 2 Fulton produced gun. The grade numbering system changed after the company moved to Fulton. The Blue Book must only list Fulton era guns.
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Nope it lists both .
And you are correct it says Quality 2 .
According to the "Blue Book" the gun I have seriel numbers to 1890 , but when one reads deeper into the "Syracuse Style" guns it say by seriel number this gun was most likely made in Fulton also .
It also shows the "Quality 0 and 1" in the same 1886-1895 grouping .
The Blue Book says ;
Syracuse guns seriel number;
16,000-16,999
18,000-20,999
22,000-23,500
And Fulton guns ;
30,000-40-334
It calls all of these as "Syracuse style guns" .
To further in this grouping they show
Quality 0 new 1895
Quality 1 new 1892
Quality 2
Quality 3
down to Quality 7
They also say Quality 4-7 a total of 550 produced .