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Sidelock
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A beauty on gunrunner auctions selling tonight. I would bid but I already have one. Good luck to you.
So many guns, so little time!
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Sidelock
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I looked at it already and while there are some problems, it looks like a good candidate if the price stays sensible. However, it did strike me that the likely orginal wood seemed awfully plain for a grade 6. Mornetas's dating would put that gun in the 1925 to 1928 era.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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I have much better wood (photo below) on a '30's era Robust 226 which isn't bottom grade, but no where near the top grade. Gil
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i suspect the gun has been restocked....never seen an ideal with a pistol grip stock - typically the french version of the half-pistol, or prince-of-wales....and i think i see a long bottom tang - which would indicate a straight grip stock originally.
and top strap inletting is good, but not great....might explain why wood does not look appropriate for a 6.
and cleared $2250....
best regards, tom
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Sidelock
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One more clue to it's grade would be the barrel's markings from MF Very unlikely a grade 6 would have anything but 5 wreath (laurels really) stamped. Additionally, I can't remember seeing a Grade six that was extractor, like this gun. More typically they are ejectors at that level.
I tend to agree about the restock but it it has been done, it's a pretty plain piece of wood that got picked.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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