Hey Vern, I'm with you on watching Tac skate backwards, blindfolded and around the CN tower while munching on some ivory grips with sauce on them. Do you have any idea where we can hire someone to make real ivory repro grips and substitute them on this gun. (Hee! Hee!) By the way, whats the CN tower?
Joking aside, some people do go crazy over unusual grips. I know that I have a pair that I regard as 'Trench Art' that are real neat. Both sides of these original wood grips have a two inch Prussian Eagle nicely carved on them. I had them on one of my chamber dated 1914 DWM artilleries and have long debated about taking them off because they are so cool.
Then again, I have a set of grips with some real neat stags carved on them that I got with a commercial Luger that I bought. Maybe I should start a side collection of various Luger grips.
I have also seen guys at gun auctions and estate sales go nutso over grips with various nazi symbols and coins. Now I am not saying that the grips in this thread are either original or even ivory. In my heart of hearts, I believe what you said about seeing some seller at a gun show selling these type of grips. But then again, it keeps going through my head that General George Patton had ivory grips on his pistols.
Big Norm
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