The catalog offering used the description, "Super Grade Field Gun", starting about 1954 or 1955, corresponding with the introduction of the Special Ventilated Rib and the discontinuing of the solid rib Skeet Gun. The box label does not correspond exactly with the catalog terminology but describes a field choked gun with solid rib, checkered stock and extension forend. Fancy wood was an option, most Super Grade Field Guns having painfully plain wood. I don't know whether only some or maybe all box labels for Super Grade Field Guns were like the one pictured by Edgar. That is some scarce gun.
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