recently lucked into a nice 12ga Baker Batavia Leader. But a little confused because of the serial # and barrels. All numbers match #110, but has chain damascus barrels where I would expect twist in older guns and fluid steel in Folsom era guns. I was under the impression that the older Baker Leaders started with serial #s in the 70,000+ range.
Glad to see a Baker web site is under construction by DrBob. Maybe he or Mr Hallquist can help with the answers. I've misplaced my copy of Daryl's article from Guns Illustrated 1997.
Here are some pics:
Thanks
Jeff
