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Rare Factory Engraved Remington Model 8 F-Grade Semi-Auto Rifle

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Rare Factory Engraved Remington Model 8 F-Grade Semi-Auto Rifle
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serial #21982, 35 Remington, 22'' barrel with a bright very good plus bore showing a little mild oxidation and frosting in the grooves with otherwise strong rifling throughout. This is a rather early F-Grade (also known as No. 6 or Premier Grade) made in early 1911. The rifle has seen honest use by its former owners who obviously appreciated it as both a fine work of art and a practical tool. Nevertheless, this example remains a fine showcase of Remington's wonderful factory engravers, renowned for their bold style and meticulous detail. The metal surfaces retain perhaps 30% original blue scattered about the more protected areas with overall toning to a pleasant mix of smoky gray and mild gunmetal patina and showing some sparsely scattered thin scratches and other light handling marks from the field. The factory embellishments remain completely intact and crisp showing wonderful flowing foliate scrollwork of the finest quality throughout the action and extending into the barrel jacket shank. This is accented by very fine punch-dot background shading and popular motifs of the time abound including shell-style bordering, starbursts, crosshatching and a nice wide acanthus pattern along the jacket shank. The ''SAFE'' marking lies within a parchment scroll. The lovely game scenes consist of a waterside buck and doe on the left, triumphant bear over a buck on the right and profile of a bear head atop the action. The deluxe checkered straight grip Circassian walnut buttstock and forend remain in about very good plus condition showing no signs of refinishing or cleaning, but just maintaining an honest appearance overall with signs of moderate use commensurate with the balance of the arm, the expected scattered dings and smoothing of the checkering overall. The sides of the buttstock exhibit some wonderful rich grain figure and a great deal of original varnish, the gold monogram plate along the toe line engraved with no doubt the original owner's information ''E. A. / WOODMAN / NEWPORT / ORE.'' The original hard rubber buttplate is intact showing a thin 2'' crack along its left edge and some dings at the toe. The rifle is sighted with a Lyman receiver sight with medium aperture disc, flip-up white diamond rear sight and Marble's Sheard brass bead front sight. The rifle also includes a very rare original leather case with locking buckle. The case remains in about very fine condition showing some mild staining and scuffs along the exterior, the handle attachments with some small tears forming and scattered areas where the stitching has been repaired. The lid closure strap is a later replacement and there was once a monogram plate in the center of the body that has been lost to the years. The interior is green felt and was probably relined at some point but is otherwise correct with two compartments nicely fitted for the taken-down rifle. This grade of Model 8 rarely comes up for sale and is always desirable; this is a fine honest example for the Remington collector. (13F11696-2) {C&R} (6000/8000)