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#2 Colonel Askin's personal 30" 16 gauge Grade 4 Flues,
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The owner of the No. 4 Flues was at best a Major and at the time he had the Flues a First Lieut. From the 1925 Ithaca Flues catalog --
1925 Ithaca Catalog pg 4.jpg
His son was the Colonel.
The engraving on the pre-1915 Ithaca guns is very nice, but I don't find their frames at all graceful in appearance. The post 1915 McGraw engraving on Ithacas to me is about on par with the Gough engraving on A.H. Fox guns. Both engravers were certainly capable, but their "to a price point" designs don't light me up.