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Old 04-22-2011, 06:44 PM
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I think we are in the familiar zone of classification fuzziness here. The whole round butt/square butt and 1902 v. 1905 thing is probably not going to be resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Yes, there are no square butt 1902s (or at least I hope there aren't). But there are both round butt and square butt 1905s, and the major collector resources (Jinks, Neal & Jinks) draw the line at 62450. I understand Mike's point about relying on frame shape to distinguish the 1902 from the 1905, and maybe it's the case that the wrong (or at least unhelpful) criteria were used to distinguish the two models in the first place, but I am still comfortable calling this one a 1905. Stare decisis, as they say of Supreme Court decisions
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