If you have been collecting antique guns for very long, you usually wind up with a box, or two, full of this type of merchandise, as I have. I always put the box on my sales tables at a gun show and often someone shows up with an old gun looking for grips, etc. Sometimes there's a match and I make a sale at a good price, as the buyer realizes he has to make the buy to complete his gun. At a gun show last weekend, I bought a dozen of these pearl & Ivory grips for unknown guns, from a disgruntled seller, most with screws and in good condition, for $5 each. The screws were worth that! The seller was tired of bringing them to shows, but I'm not! Three of the pearl pairs turned out to fit S&Ws and I sold them before the end of the show for a nice profit. Ed.
