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Sorry Lowell, I had to eat the watermelon before the gun arrived. I thought the English ivy was the right touch as this old itinerant has been to Birmingham to take a couple of pills and is so-marked.
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A pair of 12 and 20 Spanish Best. 
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I wish I had a little bit of puter sense so I could post pictures of my 4E Flues, 1911 I think. I'd just like to compare the engraving with Jack's (rabbit's). If my memory is working half right I think mine has grade 3 engraving, does Jack's have the true grade 4 engraving?
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Well, it's not much compared to some of the beauties on this thread, but here's a pic of my "old reliable" USAF LC field grade with recent quarry. 
1941 LC Smith Field Grade
"Flaming Bomb"
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What are they, Larry? Look sort of Teutonic.
Curtis, you say you've got one of these super-naif Ithicys that look like the inside of a Presbyterian church and we haven't seen it? Don't know about the 3 pattern on the 4. I guess that's possible; I'm sure Ansley would have let you pay for a FE engraved like a Sterlingworth but what I don't know about Ithaca has already filled one thread this week. Near as I can tell there's "early" (dogs and scroll) and "late" (stickbirds and broadleaf weeds) on the 4. There's a damascus 4 on GunBroker which is pretty nice as an engraved object and probably looks very much like your 1911. Mine's 1918 and isn't but I got strange swamped-rib barrels which have been to Britain to take some blue pills. Some of the real Ithacanados have kept me from fainting dead away over the Brit proofmarks by assuring me that the barrel set is kosher and possibly even desirable.
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They look Teutonic because they are clones of the Merkel 303 series guns. Made by Ignacio Ugartechea as live pigeon guns, they claim these are the best guns ever turned out by their shop. I have compared them side by side with locks off to a genuine Merkel 303 and promise you these are better made guns. And I love Merkels, I have three of them.
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Merkel 200E: [url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=442941&c=552&z=1"]  [/url] [url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=442942&c=552&z=1"]  [/url] Holloway & Naughton: [url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=442943&c=552&z=1"]  [/url] [url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=442944&c=552&z=1"]  [/url] And CZ 550 Magnum, caliber .416 Rigby in action: http://www.freewebs.com/finedouble/IMG_1117.JPG
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OK, Lowell, Here's a couple of my "uppity farmer's guns" you're becoming interested in  
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Not your run-of-the-mill Sunday pot-luck dinner guns eh.
They're rural uppish, and handsome, all rolled into one!
Sterlingworths - sir?
Tho' these would look outta place in the gun racks of the local VFW Hall's weekly bingo and meat shoot.
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Yep, just a couple of Sterlingworth farm girls dressed up for the barn dance. A short, petite 20 from Philadelphia and a taller, sturdier 16 from Utica.
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