This gun is nothing more than a shooter. It has absolutely no collectors value. None. Use it or show it to others who would not know a properly refinished or original gun from a tomato stake. Worse is that they refinished it poorly from the standpoint of a original example of what it was. Wrong case colors, wrong fore end, wrong you name it.
I see a basic 30" 20 Sterlingworth that some previous owner decided just had to have 3" chambers. thank God he did not Proport it as well. I have never liked 3" chambers on a 20. Why bother. Worse is if they removed too much metal to make the chambers 3", they may have ruined the barrels. 20 Ga. shells run 10K psi without any special effort. That is a very light gun and I doubt the barrels were other than the lightest to begin with, 4 weight. It is almost as stupid as the often cited torch masters' screwing up guns, to make them look like a small pocks epidemic run amok, to fool the uninformed buyer.
If the gun was original I would not see it as a platform for a project. Rare does get respect in my books. High condition gets respect in my books. Well worn guns get respect but cheap restorations or bad restorations do not. With high condition that gun would bring as much as many 20 A grades. Rare does have extra value to many buyers. Even with no case, limited barrel blue, and a plain original stock it would be worth more than they are asking. But after the application of off color lipstick, on a gussied up pig, it just does not get respect from me. I would rather see it restored properly, which is cost prohibitive, or used to make a new custom gun.
