Mark
If it is a I grade it should not have the dolls head rib extension. It would be straight instead. But other than that it would be as you describe.
2-piper
I never thought about DS / I grades being a gun to use up possible cosmetic problem barrels, but you may be right. Lefever used up old parts all the time. I suspect because they always were hard up for materials, parts and money. This may be why we find guns built out of order or with mixed features. I did had a gunsmith tell me he was reblueing a Lefever once and found it had one steel barrel and one damascus barrel. I guess when finished they would be hard to tell from two steel barrels. These days I have to buy the gun just for fun.
From what I have seen and heard it looks like less than 1% of the DS/I grades had twist or damascus barrels. So is it a clean out the bin gun, a early gun made when steel barrels had not been ordered and/or come in, or just a gun cobbled up from parts on hand to get out the door and bring in a little money. Who knows. They are still a lot of fun because Lefevers are like a box of chocolates. You never know what they are getting until you look them over. How dull would they be if they were like Sterlingworths where they were all the same with only minor differences in a few of them.
I have picked up several DS guns for future project guns. They do not command great prices and all I have are steel barrels with more modern stock drop. Some even have more engraving than the early G grades. Funny thing about Lefevers is that as time went by they increased in engraving instead of decreasing like other makers to cut cost.
