Just noticed a typo. It is an 1874 lifter, not 1884. Serial number is 4009. No order book exists, just the stock book. Based on the forend checkering, the quality of the buttstock wood, the sculpting and engraving on the fences, the quality of the engraving and the Damascus barrels, I believe it is the mid grade gun offered then and equates to what became the grade 3 in the next year or two. It may have been a grade 2 that had the barrel, metalwork and stock wood all upgraded, but that would seem to have been pointless.
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