Sweet!! From 1926 through 1934, the No. 3 was the lowest grade offered with the options of a beavertail forearm and a vent rib. The 1935 Ithaca Gun Co. catalog dropped the No. 1 & the No. 3 and began offering the option of the vent rib and beavertail forearm on the Field Grade and the No. 2. That is also the time they dropped the cocking indicators on the NID. I have however seen a handful of No. 1s without indicators and have such a 28-gauge. I've not seen a No. 3 without indicators.
There were a few over 45000 regular frame NIDs and just under 1000 Magnum frame NIDs. According to the breakout Ithaca did back in the 1960s there were 24 Magnum-10s made in No. 3, five 28-gauges in No. 3 and seven .410-bores in No. 3. No counts for the common gauges.
There are three NID No. 3s on GI right now, two 12-gauges and a Super-10.
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