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A RARE FACTORY ENGRAVED 12 GAUGE WINCHESTER MODEL 1897 PIGEON GRADE BLACK DIAMOND TAKE-DOWN SHOTGUN, SERIAL No. E 796442
Bead sighted barrel with matted sighting plain, deluxe checkered walnut fore-end on take-down magazine tube, factory engraved frame with decorative scroll-work highlighting large panel scenes of two pointers flushing quail and four ducks taking flight from a marsh, rare black diamond inlaid deluxe oil finished walnut pistol grip stock with checkered wrist and rare Monte-Carlo comb, mounted with factory original WINCHESTER red rubber recoil pad (tired and collapsing). Together with its original leather leg-o-mutton type case (worn overall).
30 inch barrel, FULL choke, 14 1/4 inch pull.
With areas of minor light wear (most apparent at magazine tube) retaining nearly all original blue finish, bears a light abrasion at face of frame (left side), stock and fore-end with some light marks and small cracks to burl of wood at butt plate, recoil pad as mentioned above.
A nearly identical engraving pattern appears on a Model 1897 in Winchester Engraving by R.L. Wilson (page 365). Based on original designs by Conrad F. and John Ulrich, that frame is engraved by George Ulrich.
Bead sighted barrel with matted sighting plain, deluxe checkered walnut fore-end on take-down magazine tube, factory engraved frame with decorative scroll-work highlighting large panel scenes of two pointers flushing quail and four ducks taking flight from a marsh, rare black diamond inlaid deluxe oil finished walnut pistol grip stock with checkered wrist and rare Monte-Carlo comb, mounted with factory original WINCHESTER red rubber recoil pad (tired and collapsing). Together with its original leather leg-o-mutton type case (worn overall).
30 inch barrel, FULL choke, 14 1/4 inch pull.
With areas of minor light wear (most apparent at magazine tube) retaining nearly all original blue finish, bears a light abrasion at face of frame (left side), stock and fore-end with some light marks and small cracks to burl of wood at butt plate, recoil pad as mentioned above.
A nearly identical engraving pattern appears on a Model 1897 in Winchester Engraving by R.L. Wilson (page 365). Based on original designs by Conrad F. and John Ulrich, that frame is engraved by George Ulrich.