Hi Jeff - I wish I got your Super Pigeon...no, this is a Pigeon, serial 0036 I believe (would need to go the safe and check...36 or 38...I can never remember without looking). Came with factory paper and when shown to Ken Hurst he said, "yep, that was engraved in my shop". At one time Ken's company was the outsourced engraver for Win and did the pigeons...maybe the SP also. I wouldn't call it great engraving, it was a production job done to a price point, but I still love it, I understand that only 48 pigeons were made (per Boomer). The Kusmit engraved Pigeon that used to show on Bob's website was better than my gun. But, its in excellent condition and its mine (yeah, hoarding runs in the family)
By the by, my name is Stephen Meyers and I live rather close to, and am friends with, Bob Finger who posts here...we both miss Bob Baumgart, I just liked the fella.
Bob did turn me on to a fella who had a Super Pigeon that he "wanted" to sell...but he would never name a price, just wanted me to make an offer. I got tired of dancing around with him, didn't think he was serious and thought he could wasted someone else's time.
Instead I bought a slick sided late serial number NIB (88149)and Ken Hurst is engraving it now...gold inlay game scenes, upland on left and waterfowl on the right...not the factory pattern, I believe that this will be an order of magnitude better composition and engraving. Much better scene, much more intricate scroll work, gold wire frame...but still true to the overall intent and tradition of the 12-5 pattern. I recently bought a completely awe inspiring blank of extremely marbled English Walnut from Cecil Fredi and am agonizing over who to do the stock work (hey, anything worth doing is worth obsessing over, no?)
Even so, I would buy a factory SP if I came across one....cause its factory.
Cheers
Stephen