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Post by PJGH on Jun 21, 2014 11:02:01 GMT -6
Notice the same thing I do? It's got a GEM Junior front lip ... on an Ever Ready. Curious!
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Post by HoosierTrooper on Jun 21, 2014 14:07:53 GMT -6
I'm not sure what you mean by front lip.
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Post by PJGH on Jun 21, 2014 14:25:51 GMT -6
The comb ... Okay, the 1912 (Damaskeene included) has a fattening at the edges of the comb. This was nipped off to round out the corners of the comb on the GEM Junior ... and only the GEM Junior. Every Ready continued the same style as GEM prior to 1930, post 1930. ... or so I thought. Compare: On the right is a regular 1912 - it's a post-1930 Ever Ready and the self-same comb as the pre-1930s GEMs. On the left is a post-1930 Ever Ready with a post-1930 GEM Junior comb. Well, I've never seen one before ... Folks - take a look at all your 1912s except for any GEM Juniors you have. They're all like on the right, yes? Now look at your GEM Junior - it like on the left, yes? Have you ever seen that style as an Ever Ready? Is this a missing link?
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Post by mos6502 on Jun 26, 2014 4:45:14 GMT -6
No, it's just a common garden variety U.S. made ER 1912. ALL U.S. made 1912s got this style guard at the same time. Only the Brits persisted with earlier, wider guard. Here's a pre-war Brit 1912 and a U.S. E.R. 1912 side by side. And in its box: The NRA stamp positively dates this one to sometime between 1933 and 1935.
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Post by PJGH on Jun 26, 2014 12:17:02 GMT -6
'ey up, lad ... thank you for the reply. So, curiously, all my US made Ever Ready 1912s (Ha! That's all one of them, then) has the wider, British-style guard. Is that the odd one out, then? It's one of those with a blank back. Post-1930, GEM dropped the 1912, rebadging as the GEM Junior (with the trimmed guard) and all US Ever Ready, too? Yes? I wonder what the heck my US made is. I love curiosities. Right! I'm now on the lookout for a decent US made Ever Ready with this style guard. Bloody collection! It'll be the death of me
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Post by mos6502 on Jun 27, 2014 2:36:52 GMT -6
I would say (excluding the Brit 1912s) the old-style guard ER 1912 is much less common than the late-style guard ER 1912. There's probably something like 10X as many late-style ones around.
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Post by PJGH on Jun 27, 2014 4:47:06 GMT -6
I have one in my sights, so fingers crossed ...
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Post by mos6502 on Jul 10, 2014 16:45:55 GMT -6
I now have a wide guard U.S. ER 1912 to go with my new guard ER 1912.
Can't wait to take it for a spin.
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Post by PJGH on Jul 11, 2014 4:59:35 GMT -6
I got that new guard Ever Ready ... another blank back to match my old guard with a blank back.
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Post by mos6502 on Jul 20, 2014 15:04:27 GMT -6
Do you have a picture of them? I think I've only seen blank backs on the shorthead 1912s.
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Post by PJGH on Jul 21, 2014 2:19:07 GMT -6
I'll take a snap tonight ...
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Post by PJGH on Jul 21, 2014 13:48:08 GMT -6
... here you go: Blank backs, old and new style comb side by side.
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