M1920 rifle/pistol rack

[Rick the Librarian]

I had an acqaintance who was getting rid of some stuff that her late husband had and she asked if I was interested in this, a combination rifle and pistol rack, an M1920. I couldn't resist, so I drove down and picked it up.

The rack has a fair amount of rust on it, but mostly surface, so I'll probably attempt to remove it. I'm not sure, at this time, if I'll just remove the rust, or attempt to repaint it, if I can match the color.

As you can see from a couple of the pictures, I couldn't resist loading it up with my M1903s. I jokingly told my ever-patient wife that I now needed to start filling up another rifle rack with more M1903s. I got that steely-eyed look similiar to John Wayne, when he called out a bad guy!!

One more interesting feature: The upper rack held 20 M1911s. With the current price of 1911s, I doubt that will get filled up, but I thought it was interesting that some of the serial numbers are still readable on the top of the pistols that were stored there. One a couple appear to have the entire serial number still present. (Yes, I know, the "purists" will tell me the magazines on the pistols were not there!)

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