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Nice photos there, Captain. Do you know who the fat gent in the green shirt with glasses is in one of your photos- He's holding a fine looking double but it does not seem to have a forearm- Also, do my eyes detect an open can of beer (blue 12 ounce can with letter B- on top of the wooden machinist's chest- Do they allow beer at Hausmann's and other venues-?? If so, I wonder why not some of the better PA beers- Rolling Rock, Yeul-ling (?) Ying-Yang-- thanks for sharing-

What's the story on the recessed "screw"? I always thought it was a barrel selector for a single trigger, but one photo has it on a double trigger model and it's slotted.?

If you are looking at the "boxlock" the barrel selector is in the side of the stock head. The screw slot is there to remove the selector so the stock can be removed or assembled.

The three cross bolt guns make an interesting story by themselves. The one shown with the Brad Batchelder restored gun must be a non-selector single trigger (which I did not know existed) as there is no way to return the selector pin to the right side.

One of the other two must be a conversion from single trigger back to double, but the slector pin is still in place. Note the factory checkering pattern with the border around the selector (a recent LACA newsletter showed the opposite - what must have been a conversion from double to single with the cut out recess running into the checkering).

All three guns seem to be on the trigger plate action. I thought less than half the guns were on that action,so that is a bit odd, but with only three examples, really does not prove anything.

Super display; thanks for sharing it with us!

Drew, If I am sorting the photos correctly, the Hard Damascus marking seems to be on the gun with the single dog on the lock plate. That probably is a B grade.

Interesting side thought: the story in the May - June 2013 Sporting Classics magazine in which the writer fantasizes about a 1902 hunt at the Biltmore estate includes the purchase of just such an engraved Lefever.

Thank you Terry. Got that added here with your Optimus
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