About a month ago, I was in the Denver area when the local gun show was on and ran across this Newton that screamed "take me home". I hit the owner up right before the show closed and he knocked 33% off the price and we both parted company happy. Now, your mission if you should decide to take it is tell me how happy I should be. I have read every thread in this forum and looked through Michael Petrov's book and have no clue as to who stocked this. It may well be a reasonably talented amateur. What I have is a Newton, with a Springfield barrel, Lyman 48 sight and a stock. The entire gun is a deep black, yet it shows no signs of having been buffed. The bolt body is the only thing polished. Stock finish appears to be a shellac or varnish type finish as there are a few flakes near the butt. When I got it home, the first thing I did was get the butt plate off and toss it in a pail of oil. There was moisture under the but and rust had started. Not bad, but it was there. I suspect that a spilled drink on the table had leached its way under the butt plate, I have no other explanation. I let the butt dry and coated the end with raw linseed oil and let it dry for a couple of weeks. The butt plate went into the ultrasonic and saw some minor scrubbing with soft brushes but nothing else. I believe it will need more attention, but am not sure what to use. A bunch of pictures follow showing as much detail as possible. Hopefully they will provide styling clues that will set off alarms amongst the more experienced members.
Edited to add: By my Trash reference, please do not infer that I consider it to be such. I guess I should have titled it "Diamond in the rough" or some such, but at 3 am, my sense of humor had gotten pretty sick and fueled by a bit of George Dickels. LOL
Looks like this is all I can put in this post, more to follow.
