Good morning to all, First a little about me. I live in S.E. Pa., just outside of Phila. I have been a firearms enthusiast all my life [an inhiereted trait from my father], mainly a shooter, but I have collected and disbursed a few guns over the years. I am a Range Officer on the smallbore range at Delaware County Field & Stream in Brookhaven Pa. I have always enjoyed working on "project guns", Taking them apart, seeing how they work, cleaning them up, and fixing them to return them to a functional condition. I do not like "restored" guns, as I feel this has robbed them of their history. Now, the journey of my Elsie. 25 years ago, I was browsing a local gun shop, and I found a 20 ga. side by side L C Smith. It had a horrible rust patch about half way down the barrels, it seemed that someone had put it in a corner with sweaty hands had left it there for many years. On closer examination I noticed it was missing a screw. I thought I could find a screw, and if worse came to worst, I would have to send the barrels out to be re-blued. I took the poor little darling home with me, and took it apart [big mistake] I put a generous coating of CLP on the barrels and stood them in a corner, I then started looking for the screw I needed. It was the screw that goes through the left side lockplate into the right side. This was pre-internet. Numerich had the part listed, but it was non-stock. I went to many gun shows, and every gun shop I could find, and looked through hundreds of cigar boxes of screws and parts, but to no avail, I ended up putting the parts in a box, and forgetting I even had this gun. A few weeks ago I stumbled across the barrels, now covered with gummy old oil and cobwebs. I cleaned them off, and using a Big 45 rust remover I found them to clean up surprisingly well. Now Numerich has a web site, and I found the sideplate screw now available. I didn't like the looks of the threads on the top lever screw, so I ordered one of those also. The sideplate screw came in black oxide, and stood proud on both sideplates, so it required fitting, The top lever screw came in the white, and I thought it might be zinc plated, so I used the toilet bowl cleaner trick to remove any plating [it wasn't] and I cold blued the screw to match the original. I spent several hours filing and sanding the sideplate screw to get it to fit "just right". My Elsie is now completely assembled, test fired and functions perfectly. My Elsie left Fulton N.Y. in 1919, she is a 20 ga. field model, by having the two sideplate screws, and the smaller barrel locking lug she is a feather weight. Her sn# is 10786 R. She has the splinter type pushbutton [Curtis] forend, 28" barrels. She has a hard plastic butt plate, with about a 3/16 rubber spacer between the butt plate and the stock. As close as I can tell the length of pull is about 13 7/8". She is equipped with the Hunter one trigger, and has extractors. The wood is in very good condition, with the checkering not showing much wear,and only a couple of small scratches, and no dents or dings. She still has case coloring, although somewhat faded, the bluing on the barrels in good condition, just showing a little splotching where the rust had been. [the Big 45 rust remover removes rust without damaging the bluing.] She has 2 3/4 inch chambers. A friend tried to help measure the choke constriction, but we couldn't get in deep enough to measure the bore. We came up with .608 on the right side, and .595 on the left, which I think will equal full and modified. The barrels "ring like a bell" and her lock up is as tight as a drum. She will be a shooter, and I hope to spend many days at the table trap range, as well as much time in the field with her. Myles