This is the one that was lost. It was sold over 60 years ago to a gentleman from Savannah, with the wrist broken, for $50. It sat in a closet for about 50 years in it's broken state. The owner died and left it to an heir, who commissioned Jim Kelly, a fine gunsmith in Darlington, SC to restock it (buttstock only). Jim read the serial number, did a little research and "put the pieces together". He did the restock and the new owner (the heir) took it home. It stayed there for another couple years until he decided to commission Julia's to auction it and see what it would bring. The rest is history.
There was much conjecture at the time that it was a counterfeit, mostly by people who were more enamored with the story of it being lost than they were with it being found. Hogan, and Julia's pronounced it as the real deal, and we all know what it brought when the hammer fell.
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