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My GUESS is outsourced. The engraving style doesn't seem to match contemporary Smith work. Other than the later Eagle grade, were any Smiths stippled?
Like jawjadawg, I wish it were mine.
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The dog engraving does not look like Hunter Arms engraving, and I have never seen a rabbit on one. The checkering looks recut and looks sharp at the points and should be flat topped like the No.00.
Lots of if's.
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I wish it were mine. My first quick glance made me think B grade Baker. My thought as well.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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mo wunderful gons...dees ode graded smitz are perhaps the most seductive of all american classic doublegons, wid the lefevers ah close second...
would luv to see pitchers of graded lefevers...
Last edited by ed good; 01/22/16 08:03 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Sidelock
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Why Ed... so you can fantasize about torching them?
The NRA has proven itself unreliable and corrupt.
Period.
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so it is an o grade that was engraved out side the factory?
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would of had to start out as a grade 1 or lower as it doesn't have the pointed bolsters or whatever they are called on the top of the receiver that are present on grade 2 or higher graded smiths of that era....
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My guess is that it is actually a higher grade gun, and the description in the DGJ Index and Reader was a typo. I can understand the "never say never" explanation because I have seen the same with Lefevers, but I have never once seen an O grade L.C. Smith with anything more than simple border engraving around the lock plates.
The NRA has proven itself unreliable and corrupt.
Period.
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