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Check out this sterlingworth on gunbroker # 64168439 I sure am glad I wasn't the one holding onto this one.
I would imagine it was an obstruction of some sort. The $700.00 starting price seems high considering condition!
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$700.00
He must be asking for some pain and suffering.
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The shooter had the pain and suffering. This guy is delusional! Ed will have this on Gunbroker tomorrow...complete with new case coloring!
Last edited by jjwag69; 01/15/07 09:45 PM.
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He might be the shooter ?
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Looking at this again I just wonder about what has been done to the barrels.
The bluing look's real fresh and the exposed metal of the bore is real clean like a fresh polish job was just completed. Could the wall thickness have been to thin after the work was done and this is the result.
This could give Ed-1 a run for his money! Read the text 70% condition,the ejectors timed,and on face.
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You should read the description after MR. Ed gets this one.
Rare small bore, very clean bore, very open choked right barrel, two beads, better blueing on left barrel than the right, ejectors work perfectly, no pitting in the barrels. Get this one before the tourch gets it.
One of a kind with just the slightest need for refinishing. Refinish after hammering the barrel back togeather. Oh yeah, extending your hand past the forend is not recomended due to minor flaw.
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I have a friend who had his granddads 12 ga Sterlingworth blow up on him when he was about 14 at the time.The blow up was probably due to a stuck wad. It looked very similar to the pictures shown but it was the left tube. His hand was "scuffed up" a little bit but healed up fine.
When I got interested in double guns later I convinced him to send to Lefever Arms in Lee Center NY to be monoblocked and re-finshed. I think it cost him about $1200 to replace the left tube, reblue, recolor, redo the checkering and wood finish(the forend had split in half and was glued).
He still shoots in sometimes and remembers his granddad when he does.
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Without the blown barrel any of the big dealers would have $2850 or more on a 20-gauge Sterlingworth ejector with an unmolested stock like this one. I'll place my bet on a AA HS base wad!
It is very hard to say from those photos what may have been done to this gun over the years. Back in my youth, my Father and I answered an ad in the Seattle Times for a 20-gauge AE-Grade Fox. The gun had the 2nd generation engraving but still with the early style snap-on/off forearm. It weighed about 5 pounds 12 ounces. The guy had rechambered it to 3-inch, and he was selling it because his wife didn't like it because it kicked too much!! Even back in the late 1960s we knew enough to beat a retreat!
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Its no wonder the vintage American collector places so much importance on original condition - the things our forefathers did. Give 'em a hammer, and they'll make it work!
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