You're welcome baddarryl.
one more thing to look for, check the safety. Some of the Ithacas had a 3 position safety. Being a low end field grade gun, it probably doesn't but there is no hard and fast rule that I am aware of.
Back in those days, you could buy your gun "off the rack", or you could buy it with any combination of features you wanted, direct from Ithaca.
My Grandfather's gun is 26" barrels, choked FULL/FULL, (what he wanted), and has the stock made to his personal specs (it has more drop than standard), extractors (no ejectors), and a 3 position safety.
He once told me that if he had known then what he knew now, he would have spent the extra money ($4, IIRC) and gotten ejectors. He never told me if he ordered the safety special, or not.
The safety, when pushed forward to the "fire" position moves back to the "safe" position when you break open the gun. My Grandpa's gun has a third position, pulled back from the "safe" position (you can see an "S" through a hole in the safety when its on safe). When the safety is in the rear (unmarked) position, the gun will fire, and the safety will NOT move to safe when the gun is opened.
ALSO (and this is what Pappa, loved about it), with the safety in the back position, and the gun open, pulling and holding both triggers back, while closing the action leaves the gun with the hammers down (uncocked). One NEVER need to dry fire that gun to store it with the hammers down. Also, an added benefit is that this gun can be stored loaded and uncocked. Quite safe, and simply breaking it open (all the way) and reclosing it makes it fully ready.
His gun lived through two generations of inquisitive children, LOADED, behind the (always open) dining room door, quite safely. Children too small to understand gun safety were also too small to cock the gun (it does take a bit of effort to get it all the way open when its not cocked), and children big enough to physically do it were also big enough to understand it, and be safe.
Someone, somewhere might read this last bit, and have a fit about how "unsafe" that was, and how much "risk" he put his family in (for nearly 80 years?) not having the gun "properly" stored. As far as I'm concerned, they can have their fit, and fall down in it. There were lots of things on the farm that were "dangerous", and children in those era's weren't as coddled and protected from reality as is common today. Instead, they were expected to actually LEARN, and be responsible.
(sorry for the rant)