The No. 1 1/2 was long gone by the time the NID came along in 1926. In late 1919, Ithaca thinned out their grades when they quit offering composite iron and steel barrels after The Great War, and the bold floral engraving that had been introduced on the No. 1 1/2 in the summer of 1915 --
became the new No. 1 --
