Great gun!! Interesting that it has the nicer looking later style beavertail forearm wood but still has the earlier style Deeley forearm latch mechanism. My No. 4E 20-gauge that was sold in 1933 but has a higher serial number, 457534, has the short fat beavertail of the earlier NIDs.





Lower forearm is from my 1936 vintage No. 4E 12-gauge skeet gun which has the later style latch which combines the lever-actuated tilting block of a Parker along with the spring tension of the Baker J-spring.