Keith ,
Those colors you see are shadow colors. Both sideplates are shiny. I almost passed on this gun because of the nickel plating and of some repair work it had on the stock(long crack), but they were done very well and the in-letted area was glas-bedded. The price was very good for an ejector gun. Plus it shoots nice.
Brophy's book does not mention nickel plating but work was sent to Ithaca for this type of work, also in a 1948 Repair Price List from the L.C. Smith Gun Co. there is reference of Blue Locks and Frame....$12.50. So if your case colors were worn off you could have it blued, and I have a 1924 Long Range Wildfowl that has just that. Maybe they did it and maybe they didn't.
Last edited by JDW; 01/08/09 11:10 PM.
