What grade is this lifter?

[Hammer Gun]

I Believe it is a 150.00 grade gun, obviously engraved by Glhan. I believe if it were a higher dollar grade you would start to see the teat in the bolster as you see in the later graded guns like grade 4. I think that extra engraving was asked for on this gun, just my thoughts, I have some paper work on dollar grades that Ron gave me I will look and see if there is anything pertaining to this gun, Gary

[Pa SxS]

Here is a copy of the stock book entry for this gun, that's all I have for this gun. As you can see, the only thing it shows is the barrel steel, gauge, and barrel length. The red D and red highlighted 10/30 was entered by Roy Gunther when he edited the books. We just have to trust him that he entered the correct data. Larry had sent me pictures before he posted this thread and below, you can see my response to him. My advice as to grade is pretty much exactly as everyone's opinion. It's a great gun!

If I had to guess, it's equivalent to a D grade hammer gun which would be called a $150 Dollar grade gun in that time period. It also has some nice panel engraving and the amount of engraving could possibly bring it to a $200 Dollar grade gun. Most of the $200 Dollar grade and $250 Dollar grade guns had a spur on the side of the bolsters and yours doesn't have that. One of the problems with identifying these real early guns is that the engraving and sculpturing varied so much it's hard to grade them properly. I have a 1880 D grade hammer gun which has very little engraving but another D grade hammer gun in the same time period can have much more engraving. Nothing was standard in those early days.