serial #241853, 12 ga., 32'' ventilated rib barrel choked full with a bright about excellent bore. The barrel retains about 95-97% of a very old restored blue finish, there being tiny pinprick pits over all beneath the finish, the work was done many years ago and is excellent. The receiver retains about 97-98% excellent Remington-era color case-hardening and appears original with crisp open foliate scroll engraving with background stippled accenting, ''Parker'' on the belly of the frame, the Ilion address on the water table. There are a few spots of light oxidation staining here and there but they are very unobtrusive, primarily along the sharp edges of the carry point. The arm was very neatly restocked, perhaps during the 70s, and shows a nice checkered walnut Monte Carlo stock with a flared teardrop pigsfoot style pistolgrip and a semi-beavertail style target forend. Both feature ribbon and scroll checkering patterns and rate about very good, showing added finish on both which has filled the checkering to some degree, the buttstock showing some crackling and crazing and a few streaks in the finish. The forend has a small 3/4'' synthetic filler repair right at the iron, and an area at the forend's tip where a ''label maker'' label was once applied; there is an inconsequential drying crack to the right of the forend release in the highly figured wood. The gun locks up well with the top lever slightly right of center, the barrel however very very slightly off-face, but the arm seems to function properly with a robust ejector. There is a bit of a gap at the forend iron and the bottom plate does not currently sit completely flush and the thin metal web at the right front bottom plate screw has chipped away. Length of pull to the 1'' ventilated screen face Pachmayr pad is 14'' with drops of 1 3/8'' and 1 5/8''; the pad was not expertly fitted. There is a Bradley front bead present, the mid-rib is not. A handsome SC trap that with a bit of attention would be a head turner once again and take its place back on the trap field. (3B9741-9) {MODERN} (1800/2200)
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