Yeah - the stock stinks. The gun is nice. Premier's aren't a dime a dozen - maybe more like 50 cents. I don't like the rounded-bar look, though. I don't know why Scott did that on their guns.
On the bottom of the Premier I see engraving, two different styles. The one for the game scenes looks like an early kind of Bulino. I'm away from my books right now, so I'm certain I have all my terms wrong.
On the Imperial, a lot more metal has been removed to create that pattern. I bet work on the Imperial takes a lot longer to do.
Perhaps our resident engraver could give his insights and opinions into the work? I would love to hear what he has to say.
On both guns, the scenes seem a bit awkward. I like to think of them as charmingly naive.
And to restock that gun right - forend and butt - is going to run $8-$10gs at least. If you could buy the gun for $3gs and the bbls are sound, it may be worth doing.
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