Catalog Auction info Auction #128 - Two-Day Sale, November 21st & 22nd (#128) 11/21/2020 9:00 AM EST Closed Starts Ending 11/21/2020 9:00 AM EST Auction Info Lot #38 Famed Exhibition Shooter Ernie Lind's ''Worlds Most Highly Embellished Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum Hand Ejector Revolver'' Click image to enlarge PreviousNextSimilar Items Lot closed - Sold Price (Including Buyer`s Premium):$30,000 Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 Description Description: serial #S84079, .357 Magnum, 8 3/8'' barrel with a bright excellent bore. This is an exceptionally embellished and exceedingly stunning revolver, with what is perhaps the nicest pair of Alvin White carved grips we have encountered. Miraculously this museum grade piece of art was actually used in exhibition shooting by the famed ''Shooting Linds'' Ernie and Dot Lind, trick and exhibition shooters for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Western Cartridge Company, MGM Motion Pictures and the United States Army to name a few. The revolver retains all of its post-engraving nickel finish and is treated with full coverage tight flowing scroll engraving with the finest vertical line background accenting, with exceptional quality game scene vignettes gracing the frame. The right side of the arm shows a pair of fighting bull elk, a buck whitetail deer and bighorn sheep, while the left shows a charging bear, a scowling bobcat and a pronghorn antelope with a large bull moose head on the face of the frame at the crane pivot. There is crosshatch and geometric engraving on the butt, underside of the ejector rod shroud and the sides of the factory checkered barrel rib, with open flowing scroll on the sight ramp. Both hammer and trigger retain virtually all of their original vibrant color case-hardening with just a bit of light, light wear. The revolver wears a pair of carved genuine ivory grips with a silver S&W medallions, unmistakably the work of Alvin White with his lower grip-filling forward flare, which fills the frame void directly to the rear of the triggerguard. The left side shows open flowing scroll with floral embellishment around the grip screw, the right side with a standing bull elk amidst a Rocky Mountain backdrop, each with nice brown-toned ink staining accenting the background; the work is unmistakably Alvin Whites and is identical to signed examples, even the grip screw is lightly engraved. The revolver is sighted with a white outline rear sight and Patridge style orange front blade, and is actually a twin to a pre-model 27 auctioned in 2012, also engraved by Boch, that example with simple carved walnut grips by White. Included with the arm is a copy of The Complete Book of Trick and Fancy Shooting © 1972 Ernie Lind, in-which is a picture of Dot Lind shooting the gun, upside down and backwards with the aid of a mirror. The actual original black and white glossy of that photo is included, under magnification one can see this is indeed the exact gun that Mrs. Lind is shooting in the picture. Also included is one of Ernie Lind's promotional pamphlets from ''Gunthunder Hill'' (their home in West Swanzey, New Hampshire) showing a picture of Lind himself on the cover along with additional images on the inside, including pictures of his ''bullet art'', with a promotional narrative on the rear. An additional photograph is included showing the gun among a number of other similarly engraved and embellished Lind firearms, many of which are included in the book, and there is a large 8x10 black and white of Mrs. Lind with the revolver also, dated March 1957. Interestingly the sister revolver sold in 2012 was described as ''One of the Most Highly Engraved Smith & Wessons in the World!'', this example certainly on par with, and in this writers opinion more embellished than, that example, even the ''panels'' beneath the grips showing scroll engraving which lacked on the previous example, thusly if one ever installed ''service style'' grips on this arm it would still be full coverage engraved. Factory records will confirm shipment in August 1951 to distributor Jurek Brothers of Greenfield Mass. for shooter Ernie Lind. Rarely does a revolver this exceptional come up for public auction, to have it be part of the former collection of these famous trick and exhibition shooters places the gun in another genre entirely, making it all the more desirable. Outwardly the arm appears as-new, as it came from Waffen Boch of Frankfurt Germany after this master-level full coverage engraving was completed, one would never guess that it was used by Dot and Ernie Lind in their many feats of exhibition and trick shooting. Exhibition grade, investment-grade, worthy of the finest collection of Smith & Wesson arms. (39777-1) {C&R} (10,000/15,000) Categories: firearm Terms and conditions TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE The following paragraphs represent the terms under which all sales by Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc. are conducted. Bidding on any item in the sale indicates the bidder’s full acceptance and understanding of all terms and conditions of sale. Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc. has taken great care in the preparation of the descriptions in this catalog. Although we believe everything in the descriptions to be true, we do not guarantee any part of any description. 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