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It's the first one. No stars.
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It's the first one. No stars. To my eye anyway, that's the worst of the NID field versions. Short fore-end, rough and crude checkering, and the roll-stamp they were using to stamp the dog on the side was about worn out...Geo
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40thousand or so NID's made. 4 or 5 different field configurations most of those 12 gauge and most of the field guns well used. Doesn't sound as though the 20 gauge is way over priced, by the time you find another as nice maybe cheaper your best visla could be past her prime.
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Compliments to Researcher for a fine reply post.
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PM - you read my mind. The seller is not known for bargains. I may be able to get it down 10%. I see few high condition 20 ga American guns with 28" barrels. I suppose if I were to attend dozens of shows and auctions each year I might have a different perspective.
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I like the third variation, isn't the top of the receiver stippled?
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VV,
You can look for the other variations and try and collect all of them, 95% or better. Throw in a beater or two for training those young dogs when you have to lay the gun down and reset your pup.
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Bob, The third does have a stippled receiver on either side of the lever, and I find it very attractive. It's a 20 Field Skeet (thanks to Walt Snyder who identified it).
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Researcher's third version stippled top  VinnieViz, your calculations are quite familiar; If I had the time to gunshop, gunshow and pawnshop I could prolly save this many hunnert, but I don't, it's a good gun in uncommon shape, and I want that damn gun. 
Last edited by Yeti; 06/25/08 08:49 PM.
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I too find the 1935 to WW-II version of the Field Grade NID the most pleasing.
It is basically just the Field Grade of that period, but in many of the Ithaca catalogues they showed the fully optioned (ejectors, single trigger, ivory sights and beavertail) Skeet Gun in the Field Grade. The page is boldly titled The New Ithaca Skeet Model Field Grade and above that they picture the fully optioned Skeet Gun. Below the Skeet Gun text they show the Field Grade gun with a slim forearm and state "This is the new model Field Grade Ithaca, a game gun without the extra features usually wanted by skeet shooters." By the 1938 "Dealers Quotations" They price the Skeet Guns separately from the regular doubles and state they have "Beavertail Forend, Selective Single Trigger, Automatinc Ejectors, and Ivory Sights." A regular Field Grade was $43 and a Field Grade Skeet Gun was $89.55, exactly the price of adding the ejectors $12.95, the beavertail $10.90, the SST $21.60 and the ivory sights $1.10.
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