The gun was purchased about 40 years at the old Abercrombie & Fitch in Chicago. The sales receipt while being a A&F receipt)only has a few zeros on the price and the receipt has a VL&A paid stamp on it, I wonder why? Anyway other than that I had a Ithaca M-66 single-shot lever action 20 gauge as a kid's first shotgun - Sorry no interesting story...

-Rick

Ps. to all - thanks for the help.