I'm sure you know if you ever want to sell this gun that even if you give Sal top of the list many of us would compete for it and I would be one.
I am going to want to work with you if you will let me on Lee or Lew Seely because now I can really suspect he must have been a sort of gun dealer but likely for discriminating users, given the two examples we now have. Surely someone knows some of his history. (Did you buy guns from him, Ed?) Note: As posted below RIA sold SN 29813 as lot 22 in 9/15/2013 auction with gold wash and Type 2 Oscar Young engraving shipped 11/7/1901 to Lew Seely, but grips were rubber and Seely apparently added pearls himself - strange. Maybe he liked pearls (itself strange on large western guns) and S&W at times couldn't deliver.
I have attached NM #3 31922 shipped to Seely 9/24/1903 with probably style 1 Young family engraving. Not mentioned in the letter is that A.J.T. is engraved on the backstrap, I believe at the factory.
I plan to send for a new letter on this gun, which I have done on several that had old letters. I have gotten some new info sometimes, I think because Roy has gotten better over time with maximizing the available records. (Don, don't tip him off so we get a valid test.)
CB
Last edited by crossv; 08-11-2018 at 04:29 PM.
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