Those are some nice old guns. I've never seen one in person, which is somewhat understandable considering that the total production is said to be less than 500 guns total.
I kind of wonder if that guys gun was a gun assembled from parts by an employee after the company folded up and the frame didn't get hardened? Hence the off face and stripped out screw?
Shotgun frames of this vintage were typically rather low carbon steel, so they were usually case hardened since the low carbon steel can't be heat treated. I don't think case hardening a few thousandths thick would do much at all to prevent a gun from going off-face, or preventing screw threads from getting stripped out. More likely the result of being shot a lot with inappropriate loads, and someone improperly tightening or removing the screw at some point.
The picture of the gun owned by Harry Sanders is very nice. But whoever pinned the stock through the cheeks in that manner was a jackass. With that fine and dark checkering in the cheek panels, it could have easily been fixed with a repair that would be nearly invisible. That so-called repair is about like fixing a defect in the Mona Lisa with a piece of duct tape.
