Thanks everyone for looking into your collections and digging into your recollections on this issue! Appears to me that, as best we can tell, no sxs Elsie's have been reported here that left the factory with Ventilated Ribs and Precious Metal Inlays. SBT Guns evidently, and understandably, did. I wonder why! If history repeats itself, in a day or two, some rascal will show up with a V/R SXS gun and a Precious Metal Inlay! Hope so, as it just adds to the allure of these old guns. Thanks again, and I'll report to the owner of the subject Crown Grade that it's likely as it was born as we see it today. John