Farrant style cut frame grips -- but not Farrant. Hurst? Hogue?

[SG-688]

Submitted for your consideration: This pair of stocks is in the Farrant – Stark – Blackford cut-frame California style with palm swells and finger grooves. The palm swells make me think of Hurst, while the finger grooves look a bit like the early Hogue grips pictured in the James Mason Book.

Could have been anybody, but I'm guessing Ludwig didn't make them!

 

[cudamank]

I have a model 28 highway patrol, that the front corner of the frame cut off and looks like it would fit in that grip.

 

[29aholic]

I'm still guessing Fuzzy

 

[SG-688]

It doesn't show well in the pictures, but the top of the grip is cut straight where a S&W or an older Colt has a half circle. The locator pin in the frame is about right, too. Haven't tried whacking off a MK III to prove it, though.

 

[SG-688]

The checkering is not in the classic Farrant style.

 

[fat tom]

I'd say Hurst. All of his grips that I have seen (only three pair,one of which was mine) had someone's name written inside them like yours.
f.t.

 

[OIF2]

+1, Fat Tom. Those are Hurst stocks. The checkering is John's style (he liked the diamond around the screwhole) as are the palmswells and base. I have several identical sets, with and without the frame cut. John liked the open-back with a shoulder and this was his favorite stock for his own revolvers. He would make just about anything, though, and made sets for M52s and 1911s.
Bob

 

[gaucho1]

That is some beautiful and skilled woodworking.

 

[MKT]

The checkering looks like Hurst. Also, the yellow marker (or grease pencil) screams Hurst as well.

I can't say I am a Hurst expert, or anything of the sort, but every set of Hurst grips I have seen have had the yellow marker.

 

[SG-688]

Thank you all. Good tip about the name usally being marked inside.

I didn't think I'd ever seen a Hurst stock and turned out I'd owned a pair for ten years.