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I understand all to well the economics of producing a book of this nature. IT IS EXPENSIVE! I am so glad John chose to print it in the USA and especially in North Carolina. How special is that. Congratulations to John and I wish him much success with your "baby." I will ,order mine within the next few days. Smiths and Ithacas are first cousins you all realize. (Please no Ithaca bashing on this post.)
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Dig, you threw me off a little when you said boxlock and listed the serial numbers on your newly acquired L.C. Smith. It is a sidelock and your gun was made in 1947. Marlin took them over in 1945 and didn't start producing the "S" series until 1946.
About the Deeley forend latch, I don't think that is original on this year gun. Of couse it could have been special ordered. David
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JDW
Many thanks
I have not yet seen the gun, I posted as it has been described. I'll see it on Wednesday.
To an L C Smith buff, would this be an interesting gun?
Or are the later ones like the Greener Empire - sad reflections of past glories?
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Dig, The rebirth of the L.C. Smith from Marlin 1967-1971, listed only 1 grade a Field Grade and later a Deluxe Grade. Both had ventilated aluminum ribs by Poly Choke. The bridges were closely spaced as to lessen the chance of dents in the rib. 28 " barrels mod/full, double triggers. Stated they will be copies of the originals. Later plans are to make 26" barrels imp.cyl/mod. all in 12 ga. only. Plus I think they both had beavertail forends.
Both were well built guns, but the Deluxe version was no where close to the real Deluxe L.C. that started off as $1,000.00 in 1913. From what I gathered reading on various manufactures of custom shotguns, none ever came close to this L.C. Smith in price and workmanship.
The new book on L.C. Smith's is coming out soon, and it supposedly has lots of information (500 pages) and lots of photos. Interesting enough that it is stated that Brophy's research in his book was very precise.
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Originally posted by JDW:
Both had ventilated aluminum ribs by Poly Choke. Plus I think they both had beavertail forends. JDW. This is not true. The Deluxe had a steel vent rib made by Simmons with their standard post spacing and only the Deluxe had the beavertail forearms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I ordered the Dekuxe Monogram Limited Edition this morning. There will be 300copies of it and mine will be #100. I was told that about 90 copies of the limited edition had already been sold. I was also told that they would be ready for shipment in the last week of November or the first week in December.
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