Further on Bob's E grade...it really is quite rare. Other collectors are pretty coy about the topic when asked...I will assert that for end ejector guns are few and far between. The in-frame design was clearly much better, and rightfully became the standard ejector after it's introduction straight on through to the end of the company.
Off the top of my head I can't even recall seeing an E grade so equipped. In that era E's were not the mid-grade gun they eventually became, so it's surprising that an E would have had them, given the price.
Some of the finest Lefever's ever made were produced in the same time frame as your gun, and several are equipped with forend ejectors. The Benjamin Harrison gun which sold a couple years back was so equipped. And others have what I can only guess are experimental features, owing to additional screws whose purpose I don't know. The "Kimball" gun is one...there is a picture of it in Elliott's 2nd book. I wish the guy who owns it would show more pictures, but he never has, that I have seen. He was registered on the old Lefever forum but rarely said anything, and has not joined the new forum as far as I know.
NDG
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