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The gun has been in the same family for nearly a century, and they haven't messed with it in that time
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01-12-2012, 05:20 PM
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ok - what I like about it is -- oh heck everything!!
I can't make out the blurry pic, a bird?, but a pointing dog on a 10 bore with 32 inch tubes? I'd like to have met the man who carried that all day and still swung it on a flush. And it stayed in the family, fantastic. I like poking around antique shops but I often look at something and think that a family lost part of its heritage. thank you for posting this one.
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01-12-2012, 06:17 PM
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Two of the dogs have birds (I assume ducks) in their mouths. The ducks have crests on thier heads. Mergansers? Wood ducks ?
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01-12-2012, 06:37 PM
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There are dogs and birds all over the gun: both sides, breach balls, trigger guard top end of the floor plate. Bottom of the floor plate is a pair of elk. It's just spectacular in every way.
All of the screws are perfect - not one has seen a screw driver since the day the gun left Meriden. The ONLY exception is the screw holding the brass plate on the pistol grip cap which is not aligned perfectly. I if the original owners name/initials are on the other side of that plate.... |
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01-12-2012, 08:44 PM
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Double WOW!
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01-12-2012, 10:16 PM
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Can't we see more photos!!!!!
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01-13-2012, 08:28 AM
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Here is it's twin, SN 89415, a 12 ga. I have always tried to figure out when the engaving patterns changed from the dogs being towards the front of the frame to later towards the back. The 10 ga shown above adds a little more to my research.
Is the pattern on the floorplate similar to the one shown here? And for the gentleman who asked whether the damascus pattern can look so good a 100 years later, the pattern on my gun is almost as nice after all these years. This is way I hate to buy new guns that are good looking-you never use them, and I guess the same was true 100 yeras ago!!! Best, Ray |
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Absolutely fantastic
I would love to see A grades as the focus of next years banquet ? David |
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