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Factory Engraved Remington Model 8 D-Grade Semi-Auto Rifle

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Factory Engraved Remington Model 8 D-Grade Semi-Auto Rifle
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serial #21936, 32 Remington, 22'' barrel with a bright excellent bore perhaps showing a hint of subtle frosting in the grooves and otherwise crisp rifling. This is a rather early D-Grade (also known as No. 3 or Peerless Grade) made in early 1911 and very close to the more ornate F-Grade also in this sale. The D-Grade was a good tasteful middle ground of finely detailed flowing foliate scrollwork without punch-dot shading and with light bordering and zigzagging by Remington's skilled factory engravers. The metal surfaces retain about 75% original blue showing some sparsely scattered light dings and handling marks, the high edges and sides of the action drifting to a pleasant medium gunmetal gray patina. All embellishments remain intact and crisp and the checkered pistolgrip walnut buttstock and forend remain in very good plus condition showing some scattered light dings and handling marks, the buttstock with a pair of very thin minor cracks forming at the upper tang and some small flakes at the toe. The buttstock retains a healthy amount of original lightly flaking varnish and exhibits some subtle attractive grain figure throughout. Stock fit remains very nice throughout and the proper hard rubber buttplate is intact showing some moderate smoothing. The rifle is sighted with a Marble's receiver peep sight, Marble's full buckhorn sporting rear and a Lyman ivory bead front that shows a tiny noticeable ding on the bead itself. The action seems to function well mechanically. This is a very nice honest example of a scarce D-Grade Model 8. (13C11696-7) {C&R} (3000/5000)