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Mark,
I've seen more than one G&H rifle with a Shelhamer stock.
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All too many works of art have been digraced with slotted recoil pads and white line spacers. Would those same defilers draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa? Ignorance, illiteracy, and narrow mindedness have impeded the progress of civilization and stained our collective sense of aesthetics since man first drew breath.
"What? Who's Shelhamer?" (ignorance, born of firearm illiteracy) "I'm gonna put this recoil pad on it anyways. It's my gun and I'll do with it as I darn please." (narrowmindedness)
Sigh.
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Mark:
I remember lusting after what I assume is that very G&H Farquharson for years, as it regularly appeared at the Allentown, PA gun show. How many .30-40 Farquharson's could G&H have made. This one had a 3 digit serial number.
At the time the price was about $3,500, which was about 5X my total net worth and more than I'd paid for a car. I've always wondered what happened to it. Do you know if the current owner has ever shot it?
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Rem, I know that Emil McConnell bought it some time after I saw it at Baltimore (this all gotta be ten fifteen years back) but it was not in his collection when that was auctioned off maybe three years ago by JC Devine. Dunno where it is now. At the time I passed because there seemed to be one tiny bad spot in the bore, which I would have obsessed about had I owned it. But I agree it was a superlative specimen.
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I have two 30-40 Farquharson's in my G&H database the one your thinking of is No. 636, it was on the market in 2005.
A few months before Emil McConnell's death he sent me an inventory of his rifles and that was not on the list.
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Michael:
Thank you.
You never cease to amaze me with the information you have collected over the years. I do hope you are planning on making it permanently available when you're gone, as it would clearly be a tragedy of the first order to have it disappear.
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If you want a Farq, maybe better take a look at the upcoming Holt's auction, there are some nice ones for sale there... Beware, 20% buyer's premium and the estimates are always on the low side! you can do a search for them on this page: http://auctions.holtandcompany.co.uk/asp/cataloguesearch.asp?t=243111&Nice drooling stuff indeed...
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