It was a nasty looking piece of burnt metal, with charred wood bits on it. Burned up completely. My Callahan Letter shows the early work only with mfg in 1912 and my grandfathers work done again in 1930. Callahan said that when I had the gun re-made in 1986, at that time they only kept records for 3 years, after which time they were destroyed.
This gun was originally an 1899 H Featherweight.
I have purchased the identical gun that this gun in question used to be, and it is beautiful. Your advice to leave it as is may be best, as it is beautiful now, just a completely different gun. They even put the last 75th Anniv butt-stock on it, as they called me and asked me if I wanted this. They felt it was a special deal and it was supposedly the last one that they had. At the time I thought it was cool, but now after learning things here, I realize it is now a bit of a Frankenstein.
This was all handled through the "Service Dept" at the time.
Looks great though, and works great, just a bit heavy compared to the nice "sporter" that it once was.
Thanks for your input.
