Frank,
I would certainly have expected that that wood would be serial numbered. I'm sure it is factory work. Your scenerio is certainly plausable. Can you humor me with a couple more pictures of the forearm latching. Over time, Ithaca used several different forearm fastenings on the NID. Early on they used a Deeley forearm lever on both extractor and ejector forearms with the two hooks that interlocked, like an Ansley H. Fox forearm. Pretty quickly they added a springloaded plunger in the forearm to bear against the back of the forearm loop and keep the forearm tight to the hinge. Circa 1935 they revised their forearm fastenings and went to "Baker style" J-spring on the extractor forearms. On the ejector forearms, they used the "Baker style" J-spring along with a Deeley lever actuated tilting block latch like a Parker Bros. or Philadelphia Arms Co. forearm latch. Is that Super-Ten an extractor gun? I've never examined a gun with the longer post 1935 beavertail that wasn't an ejector gun.
Dave
Last edited by Researcher; 08/31/11 10:24 PM.
