Re: Please Help ID this thing it's driving me insane!!! Archived Message
Posted by David W on July 24, 2008, 7:00 am, in reply to "Please Help ID this thing it's driving me insane!!!"
John, A little FYI, next time you post pictures, after you select the picture and paste it to the message, use your cursor and click on another line, it is very hard to read your post by scanning left to right and trying to read what you have written. Given your serial it was made in 1890 as you have said. This was the first year? that Hunter Arms started to produce guns after buying out L.C. Smith in Syracuse, N.Y. Your gun has the early type safety, and because of your pictures I can't tell but it looks like the side plates have a little bit on line engraving. If there is no stamp on the receivers water table, I'm guessing it is a Grade 1. (It is listed that they came out in 1892). Clearer pictures would definitely help.
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