[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by boom23

I am looking into this one: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=207061117.

Wow!!! $4100?!?! Way out of my interest range...Nice looking, but if I paid that much for it, it would be a safe queen...

OK, pessimistic nitpick time!!! The font on the chamber date is quite different from my 1937 S/42...more squared off on the corners...



...and I don't see much or any tool marks anywhere...especially in the frame ear areas...

I don't know enough to yell "fake!" (or "refinished!"), but I would certainly check with the real experts here to get their opinions before shelling out $4100...

Edit: Here's my chamber date for comparison...