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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
I guess it's common knowledge that a G&H installed side mount has filed off screws with the slots filed off and flush with the mount. This is probably not true in every case.
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Bill you Re correct of course, that is why I always question the norm
I have bought som great guns that were sold because they did not have “ Factory work, or out of what was accepted to be the norm.
Winchester model 21 grade 6. Sold as if it had after market engraving. Winchester records stated it was a field grade when delivered in 1941. Pauline Murrle had records going back to Winchester in 1946 after the war for a restock, and grade 6 engraving.
LC smith 2 barrel set A2 with previously unseen engraving pattern. I bought it as a Monogram as it was made years after the last A2 was manufactured. Tom Archer did an article on this gun and I bought it for a fracition of the price of an A2.
Recently I bought a Holland and Holland 275 magnum. I bought it right because I was told as well as the seller that H&H never made a flat bolt. So it had been modified and not being original hurt the value.
A letter from H&H cleared this up.
If the quality is there on a gun I like, and the price is fair I buy the gun. Its somewhat of a gamble I guess but if you can research and prove the work was factory then no only is the gun more valuable but you now have a possibly a rare or one of a kind gun.
Copy of the letter from my recent discovery. As they say never say never.
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