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Graceful Beast
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:07 pm
by Sporrns
Always love looking at the old graceful hammmer guns and the treatments on hammer design, sculpted fences and detonation shields. This 10 gauge, 32-inch heavyweight Tipping and Lawden 'tipping' (I just had to!) the scales at an even 10 pounds came equipped with sling swivels, so I'm pretty sure it saw some time on the coastal estuaries. Kevin
Re: Graceful Beast
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:50 pm
by Jeff S
Wow! Very nice.
Re: Graceful Beast
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:56 pm
by Stan Hillis
Kevin, nice hammergun. Do you think it had the high-shine coin finish when new?
SRH
Re: Graceful Beast
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:20 pm
by Sporrns
Stan Hillis wrote:Kevin, nice hammergun. Do you think it had the high-shine coin finish when new?
SRH
I would seriously doubt it Stan - more likely someone "cleaned it up" with 4/0 steel wool or Flitz or Frontier 45 or the like to remove surface corrosion or oxidation; the barrels are their original period-correct dull pale rose finish, now going to light olive color.
Re: Graceful Beast
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:04 pm
by 49packard
Great looking g gun Kevin,
I own a few hammer shotguns most of them are sub gauge. This one is one of my nice guns.12 Bore,29"bbl.which I like to use at the Vintage Matches. Brian