Also need to PS that Dean's short but very accurate treatise on the difficulty of assigning a grade to a particular gun really hits it out of the park on this one - one of the best examples of a "Grade 5 1/2" I've ever seen. As a footnote to validate what we're talking about, when I sold this gun to a high-echelon collector, he told me the reason he wanted it was that it was so significantly different in engraving coverage and execution than the other 4 Grade 5 hammer guns he already owned, it "completed the niche" of that Grade in his collection array.
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