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A couple things jump out at me here.
1. Bottom of the listing it says P.O.R., Should read P.O.S.!
2. From the description it sure sounds as if they are claiming it to be real M21 and not a CSMC M21.
3. The diamonds that are in the rosettes make it look like a New Orleans "Pimp Special Grade".
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I dont think US Repeating Arms Company ever owned Winchester, they owned the rights to put the name Winchester on their guns and build certain Winchester models until a specified date, which was never renewed.
I dont like most of the flat sided Model 21s regardless if they were engraved or not.
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From Wikipedia it sounds like they owned the facilities too.
The U.S. Repeating Arms Company. Inc. (USRAC) is the current business name of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, famous for making Winchester rifles.
USRAC's predecessor company adopted the Winchester name in 1866 when Oliver Winchester reorganized the New Haven Arms Company and changed its name to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In 1931 Western Cartridge Company (later Olin Corporation) purchased Winchester Repeating Arms and combined with it to form Winchester-Western.
In 1981, The U.S. Repeating Arms Company was formed by Winchester employees to purchase the rights to manufacture Winchester brand rifles and shotguns in New Haven, Connecticut, under license from Olin Corporation.
In 1989, after bankruptcy of the employee organized corporation, USRAC was taken over by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN), a Belgium based international group producing firearms.
Early 2006, it was announced that the plant in New Haven would close and production of several Winchester rifles would cease worldwide, some models would be continued in plants outside the United States.[1] This has changed, as according to Winchester Repeating Arms' website, Winchester guns are still being produced by FN in both the US and Belgium.
Production of ammunition and cartridge components under the Winchester Ammunition Inc. name was retained by Olin, not licensed to USRAC.
Industrial activity in Newhallville was reduced drastically after 1965, when Winchester, at that time the largest employer in New Haven, decided to move its main production line to East Alton, Illinois.[1] After a machinists' strike in the late 1970s, the plant was sold to U.S. Repeating Arms.[2] The neighborhood's long history of arms production finally ended completely in 2006, when the U.S. Repeating Arms factory closed, laying off 186 workers.[3]
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I'd buy it if it had 28" barrels......... 
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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Put in extended choke tubes, and voila - 28"
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Looks like it was engraved and checkered in Bandalesh to me.
I dont think it would even sell in Iran.
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This is the picture that really gets me laughing... 
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If Antony didn't have a market for these guns he wouldn't be building them.
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SHEEK ALLI BOO BOO would love this!
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who ever did the work has a lot of skill i don't care for the amount of gold. but to inlay the gold, platinum and i think some copper and set the diamonds takes above average skill.and i think it would need some chrome to really set the pimp gun standard.as always just my opinion. mc
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