Originally Posted By: Run With The Fox
Originally Posted By: treblig1958
There's so many of them running around for sale and Winchester offered Simmons ribs on new guns. It may not increase the value but I can't see where that aftermarket addition would reduce the asking price, either.
Maybe so, so, but an original 1919 patent raised ventilated rib on a Model 12, worth waay more than a later one installed by Simmons in Olathe, KS--


If he did that to an original 1919 Model 12 then the owner of said Model 12 should be given a second class trail and a first class hanging.