Ted, the hardware store guns you mentioned are hardly considered by any American double gun enthusiast like most here as classic American doubles. But Parkers, Foxes, L. C. Smiths, and NID Ithacas are. Nobody really expects someone like Dewey Vicknair and his talents to make a Crescent into a Churchill, and holds no animas towards him as a result.

Most all who dabble in this pastime know the shortcomings of the Elsie or Old Reliable, but the fine examples that need some care would probably not be refused out of hand by Dewey or any other great gunsmith at his level just because, the curmudgeons of the trade being the exceptions.
JR

Last edited by John Roberts; 12/08/16 12:35 PM.
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