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freek
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January 19, 2014, 08:40:30 AM »
Has anybody ever seen one-piece grips like this? The gun was made in 1878. 1st year.
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Are they Gutta Percha? If so, then no, I don't ever think I've seen a grip like that. Have you pulled the straps to see how it is made? One piece, two stuck together?
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One piece # to the gun
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Wow, they are unique in my experience. I hope so of the other guys chime in, cause I have never seen any grips like that. I'll go back to the books tonight, but I can't even remember any mention of such. Congrats on a truly wonderful find.
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The original configuration on the very first Lightning pistols included a one piece checkered walnut grip. This was expensive and time consuming to produce so they soon switched to a one piece checkered hard rubber grip (as seen here). These were also soon scrapped in favor of two piece hard rubber grips – which you see on most surviving examples today. That’s a very nice example of an early grip. You don’t see many of those so I’d hang on to that one!
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