That's a very pretty little lady there with some great figured wood... er... that just sounded wrong!
Seriously though, great looking shotgun, congrats and enjoy!
comments by Walt Snyder, the Ithaca historian and author of the books on Ithacas suggests that the barrel had it choke changed at the factory. There are factory servicepeople identification marks at the end of the barrel, the letters saying MOD have the correct, height, spacing, layout and placement as original MOD stampings do. The original FULL was carefully blanked out with a small rectangle area and the word MOD substituted. With the facts about the inspector/repairman marks, it is highly probable it is still a 100% factory gun.
The stamping is so precise, it would have been hard to stamp by hand.
That's a very pretty little lady there with some great figured wood... er... that just sounded wrong!
details, specifics and pictures please, or it doesn't exist !!!! just picking on you
I would really like to see a picture please.
please join shotgun world and go into the Ithaca forum, post up a picture of your father's/your gun and relate the history of it. you will find the folks there will welcome you !
Dave, you have a very fine collection of 37s. You spend a lot of time and resources not only adding to your own collection but helping others in need to. Keep it up!