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Did Ithaca ever install Widow's Peak butt plates?

Not sure- but how about a "Widow's Butt Peak Plate" instead.

I like what Bodio says about the NID series Ithacas-- RWTF

What does Steve say RWTF? Curious, because I bought an old one of his!!

In his book-Good Guns Again-pages 39-40: "Ithaca is America's Plain Jane boxlock---- Ithacas have boxy silhouettes, coarse engraving, and were the least expensive of the good American guns. They were also rugged, simple, featured a fast lock time-- and were available in all gauges from .410-28 and the Magnum 10.

Potential Ithaca users should confine themselves to the NID, the double made after 1925. Pre-1925 Ithaca doubles (Flues) have thin fences, they also have a sliding cocking piece on the bottom of the barrel lump. NID guns have the rotary bolt ( as on L.C. Smith and A.H. Fox-- my addition to Bodio's words) they are chunkier, more substantial looking guns---""

I like Bodio's writings, and one reason, of many, I like this book is that he loves the M12- as do I. He is not so keen on the M21 though. And like the late Michael McIntosh, he favors the A.H. Fox guns--

Hope this answers your question-- RWTF

It did. Thanks. Steve is a very pleasant many to talk with. I didn't really think that he had trashed the NID. The one I bought of his immediately after he sold it to Ron Peterson was a good shooter and accounted for several ring necks in SD.

I have never seen a widow�s peak butt plate on an original Ithaca. Could have easy happened, as they say, you could request most any option you wanted to a certain extent.
I would love to find an original Ithaca with a skeleton buttplate or checkered butt stock.
Stan