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#237425 07/31/11 12:40 PM
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I am researching a Grade 4 Flues 20 gauge that happens to also be a swamped rib gun. The interesting inscription on the initial plate is "Geo. Penn, Danville, VA. A quick ancestry.com search reveals a lot of Penns in the Danville area and mention of a Penn plantation. I was wondering if any of the Virginia Vintagers had any knowledge of the Penn family? The gun is about 1919.



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Walt,
That looks like a real beauty!!!!
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Can't understand the excitement over anything Ithaca made...

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Walt,that ia a fine looking Ithaca. Bobby

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Walt,

I found this.

http://hagen.familyfiles.info/6975.htm

Apparently the business is still around. He was a tobacco dealer.

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Pete, Thank you very much. Daryl also sent me a lead to a law suit among the Penn aires. I will get up with the Dannville Historical Society/library and see if I can find a living descendant. Many thanks!!

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I dunno about old Joe's comment- I cleaned and stripped a 10 hammer NIG circa 1906 (listed as a parts sale item on another sector here- was very impressed with the machining and fit and design of this boxlock hammer gun- I also recently acquired a Flues 20 Grade 1 in near Mint shape circa 1911- and a Flues Grade 2 28 also in VG plus shape- made in 1914-- light, well balanced, easy to cock, sweet triggers, good balance--and am dealing on a 12 NID with single trigger 28" M&F-- I like that Ithaca used a numerical system for their chokes too- Now if we only had a Ithaca Collectors Assn. website as do the Parkeristas, the Smith-son-ians and the Foxy Ladies do- ah yessss!!!


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I'll vote for you to be their leader...

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Thanks Joe- but No- if that were the case, nobody would join.


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Dang! RWTF has a sense of humor!

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