Like the difference in the wood of a 1930ish Parker Bros. VH-grade and a late Remington era VH-Grade!!
I've owned three of the 1935-1941 vintage New Ithaca Field Grades, 20-gauge, 16-gauge and Magnum-Ten and do agree they are great guns for the money. Unfortunately they have all lost their safe space to higher grades and hence flowed down the river of commerce.
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