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[Old and Reliable]

Originally Posted by Tom Pollock

I’m the 36 for 36 pink flower loving A**hole that owns this gun. If someone would rather see the pictures on a burlap bag, I can accommodate that request. This gun is guaranteed 100% brand new in the box, unassembled, and unfired, the way it left the LC Smith factory. If anyone questions the original finish of this gun, they need to have their eyes examined. Most old welders I know can’t see very well either.

If you'd like to discuss one-on-one, email me at tspollock@verizon.net.

I'm one of the "lucky ones' after many years in the trade- boiler, pressure vessel, pipeline- SMAW, TIG and MIG- all positions, even the "Arkansas Bell hole" I still have 20-15 distance vision in my right eye, and 20-20 distance in the left- with perfect depth perception. I do use a 1x magnifier in my reading and shop safety glasses for fine print- saves on renting an 'arm stretcher'--

I never called you an A-hole (or said you could run the Arkansas Bellhole with 5P or HYP (Hippie rod) either-- I'm just calling them how i see them. The wood looks like it came from a Sunkist crate- and there are rough burrs or sanding marks by the forearm iron and around the locks. Cosmoline- OK, familiar with that- we used left over coffee from the Mess Hall urins to purge the bores of the M-1 Garands and the 1903 Springfields in the base Armory. But did Hunter Arms-Marlin use that military issue for civilian weapons? I also sold a near Mint 12 Elsie FW Ideal to a brother Parker Assn. member in PA about a year ago- it also had the original (1931 by Houchins' book) yellow tag matched to the gun's sn with all the salient details- didn't add one lick to the selling price or the value of the gun I sold. You can buy all the LC Smith hang tags from the Galazan boys, and fill them in to match any gun you wish to sell.

Case colors- hard to say. Hopefully, Ed "the torch" didn't fire up his old victor combo set with the Rosebud tip in place and go over this gun- and I still say, from your fotos anyway, the left firing pin looks to be about .0015" larger in dia. at the protruding tip than that for the right barrel- but that might be my "old welder's eyes" fooling me-

Pansies, petunias, burlap bags- try setting a gun you have for sale against a gunner's motif- a LOM case, or perhaps with a few duck decoys for a background.

The Froggies have a term Trompe l'oie (sic) which means- to fool the eye- and it also lead into the artists' trick of using the "rule of thirds" to draw the vision of the beholders to the key facets of the item- might be worth a "shot":whistle :