Jim; I had a chance to inspect the K-gun while it was on display at the Northeast Fine Arms Collectors Show the first week in January 2013 at the AH Fox Collectors Association booth. You are right; it is a beautiful gun and a wonderfully handling gun as well.
As an aside, I think the Kautzkys may have entered their store a time or two in the Remington Arms storefront contests that were held up through the 1950s and early '60s (not sure of the exact dates). The idea was to decorate the storefront windows for a full week with Remington products (guns & ammo etc.) to celebrate the kickoff of hunting seasons in early October every year. The stores would arrange their displays, take photos of them, and send them in to Remington to be judged for competition.
Some of them were really amazing; entire display windows turned into hunting camps, duck blinds, etc. Gordon Fosburg of the Remington Society of America (RSA) put together a wonderful article published in the RSA Journal a year or so ago showing a selection of photographs from various years of the competition, and later gave a presentation on same that was really wonderful. Thousands of stores competed over the years, from 'Mom and Pop' cubbyhole-sized shops to the large inner-city giants like A&F. Unthinkable today, how neat it must have been to wander through them!
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