Early CE w/Banner and Scroll Engraving

[mobirdhunter]

The fact that they don't exist doesn't make me not want one any less...but I guess I can find consolation in the fact that I won't miss one if it comes up for sale.

[Researcher]

According to McIntosh, the earliest smallbores had the old style engraving, and there is record of C grades having been made toward the beginning of small bore production in the latter months of 1912.

Here is CE-Grade 200002 which a member has brought to a couple of events --

200002

and Tom Kidd showed a period pics of 200001 C in Volume One, Issue 2, of The Double Gun Journal.