Ithaca Crass Grade 3

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Brett Farley

IMHO Ithaca had some of the prettiest engraving and nicest wood of all the American SxS’s. These guns are all proof of that!

Same with the Lefevers.

[Drew Hause]

And Baker. Frank Mason setters



Upstate N.Y. was home to many of the best.
See at the top here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Q/edit?tab=t.0

[Stan Hoover]

Meant to post these earlier, but here is 2 different Grade 3 Crass models with bird engraving

[Mike of the Mountain]

Stan, did you ever find out anything on C.A. Holbrook?

[Mike of the Mountain]

Those guns look so much better than the guns with "flying turnips" and head up/head down stoat".

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Stan, did you ever find out anything on C.A. Holbrook?

I have not,

I need to do some more looking, a simple google search comes up empty. I was hoping for a few hints from some of our more accomplished historians

[mobirdhunter]

Stan, those are beautiful guns. Hard to believe there could be higher grades.

[Mike Poindexter]

Stan, your C.A.Holbrook gun rang a bell and I just looked it up. It is pictured in 3 color views at page 43 of the first edition of Walt Snyder's book. No attribution to the pictures, so I assume it was one of Walt's own guns. No information on who C.A.Holbrook was.

[Stan Hoover]

Thanks Mike,

Yes, this gun is pictured in Walt's book, and it was formerly Walt's gun. I don't feel really confident that requesting a letter will get me anywhere, Walt held all the records till just a few years back and to my knowledge never did an article on this particular gun.

Stan

[Stan Hoover]

Not to drive anyone to boredom, but here is a Grade 4 Crass with some elk like creatures for engraving, circa 1895. Don’t you wish sometimes to have been born 100 years earlier

I apologize for the less than desirable background