45 Luger at Norton Gallery

[Hugh]

Tom,


I have run across several sets of 1906 circa grips that had one side with fine checkering and the other side with coarser checkering, and they were all the same side, I don't remember which side was which, but for example, they all had the left side fine and the right side coarser. A couple of these were on a gun, and the others were not. When I first encountered this, I thought they were mismatched, but then I found a pair on a gun that were matching numbers. Maybe the grips were not made in pairs, but one source made "left" grips and another source made "right" grips? I have also seen grips that when they were "cleaned" up one side was a much lighter colored wood than the other one, but had been stained to match. Any thoughts on this?