This may be the epitome of a "closet queen!" It's a good story when someone who knows what it really is finds a nice old gun like this. Not all good guns go to a good home to live happily ever after.
Ithaca sure could make a light gun, especially in the wonderful -- in my probably not nearly humble enough opinion (IMPNHE) -- 16 gauge. 
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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