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Originally Posted by Austin J Hawthorne Jr.
Very nice...No rehab needed on this one. Does J.P.Claybrough & Bros. have a grading system. If so, do you know where this one stands?
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I no longer have the Clabrough book, so I cannot look it up, there are now factory records
the book's author described grading instead of by numbers or letters codes- there were low, middle, middle/high and high, with plenty of variation in each
but I think that one qualifies as top/high grade - very nice - mine falls into the middle/high range as a very early low hammer variation- mine has the same hammer engraving, and has a mix of scroll and game scene engraving, but it has a butt plate not a checkered butt
Claybrough serial numbers are a little odd -they changed the lock design at one point to what they called a low hammer - and restarted the numbers at 1 at that point.. that one looks like the "Low Hammer" variation
they are well made guns in the nicer grades
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