52K serial number range? We need to see pictures of this!! According to Walter Snyder's book, the Crass serial numbers ended at 49999 and the Lewis Model serial numbers began at 55000. Walter, even shows a picture of the ledger page showing this on page 292 of the Second Edition of his book. None of the Crass guns shown in Walter's book show a machine screw from the outside of the forearm wood into the forearm metal like many later Ithacas have. I'm not exactly sure when the 20-gauge was added to the Ithaca Gun Co. offerings, but I'm thinking the Crass was only offered in 10-, 12- and 16-gauges.
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