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    Re: fore end wood Archived Message

    Posted by David Williamson on August 4, 2016, 8:45 pm, in reply to "Re: fore end wood"

    Dan, the early transitional Fulton's did have the same attributes as the Syracuse guns for a short period of time. Even some of the later transitional ones started going more towards the look of the Fulton guns with coarser checkering and going to a flat head side plate connecting screw, compared to the round head one of the Syracuse ones, eliminating the wider for-end and the "duck bill".
    The embedded metal or ivory escutcheon in the for-end is one that I have seen on some of the later Syracuse guns in the serial number range of 20,000 to 22,800.


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