Nancy, if your magnifier inspection proves the latest revelation correct, your gun has been sleeved with fluid steel tubes, probably by a skilled craftsman, and will probably have excellent bores. See if you can find any markings that may give a clue to the identity of the person who did the work. If no European proof marks, it was probably done in this country, maybe by Frank Lefever and Son in New York, not a bad sleever in most cases. The nearly invisible seam resembles his work.
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