Pretty lean description, but picture number 11 shows "...pp Fluid Steel" instead of the normally seen "Ordnance." So in reality it seems to be a very late DEK-Grade, which was never cataloged. For a little info on Remington Hammerless Doubles with Krupp Fluid Steel barrels, see The Double Gun Journal, Volume Eleven, Issue 4, page 141. While Steve never gives us the serial number or shows pictures of the watertable and barrel flats I suspect that gun is 11 to 14 years newer then the DuPont Medal in the lid of the case. The checkering seems rather coarse for a D-quality Remington Hammerless Double. All the other D-quality Remingtons I've seen have checkered stock cheeks and the forearms have a considerably fancier pattern, usually with the main patch of checkering about 28 lpi and the decorative panels 32 lpi. The checkering pattern on the forearm of the gun in question is the same as seen on most C-quality Remington Hammerless Doubles, but the wood is profiled with the little side panels like normally seen on D- and E-quality guns. Also there doesn't appear to be an initial oval along the belly of the stock as is normal on C- and higher quality Remingtons.
Two patents were issued on the same day, October 30, 1894. No. 528,507 pertaining to the milling of the frame was granted to R. C. Fay of Ilion, New York, assignor to the Remington Arms Company of same place; and No. 528,508 pertaining to the automatic ejectors, to R.C. Fay and G.E. Humphreys of Ilion, New York, assignor to the Remington Arms Company of same place.
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