Drew,
Thanks for the picture trail, it did get me started. I believe it is a B grade. I have everything original for the gun except the forend wood.
Dave,
I will try to have some pics by the weekend. I do not have a digital camera and currently the gun is over my friends house and he does have the camera, so I will try to get him to take some shots. You are right about the .55 whoever fit the later barrels. I looked up Ferlach in one of my Blue Books and they explained that the Felach community is rather tight knit and from those numbers with the period in between some experts can tell who manufactured the gun and the approximate dating of when the work was done. Supposedly all Ferlach guns are numbered the same way with one set of digits belonging to a particular maker or consortium (identifying them) and the other numbers being the serial.
Those blued Ferlach barrels are beautiful (no knock against the twist barrels) and polished and engraved flawlessly; they fit flawlessly too. I don't think they were shot much as they look brand new. Believe the gun may have been sent to be rebarreled in the 50's when damascus was really declared unsafe in US and things could be bought rather cheaply in war torn rebuilding Europe.
Jack K
Last edited by Jack K; 05/10/10 05:13 PM.
