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Originally Posted by E Robert Fabian
Thanks Bruce, they look like a D and look simple enough, I thought I had seen a C with the oval or tear drop in a circular pattern.
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I don't know what you mean by oval or tear drop. If you mean the circular side panel engraving , the roundell engraving , yes there are maybe 20% of C's from 1900 to 1905 in that style. The stock drop points are constant until the Rem era comes along.
And , to be anal about it, there are differences between C and D screws. The differences are subtle, but there. You saw the C screws above, they have radial lines in a short/long repetition. The D screws below are from a 1910 20ga gun, which is the closest to your year that I have in D's. They have radial lines generally in equal length, except for the TG bow screw which has an unusual center starburst. Now the B screws are really different, and there could be a whole PP article written about grade 5 and up screw head engraving. We could do that next annual meeting banquet.....that would have the ladies asleep in no time.
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