Look at these Underwoods

[Rustship]

Frank,

He had the one for over 20 yrs, about a month ago he was looking in an on-line auction and showing me one he was thinking about, and we were doing this over the phone. I read out the serial number (cause you know his sight isnt worth a crap) and he said that sounds mighty familiar. Went to his Gun Safe, looked at his, and it was consecutive. You should have heard him (he had laid the phone down). I cant repeat what he was screaming....LOL. He came back to the phone breathing all hard and said nobody is gonna out bid me on this one, and they didnt. What are the odds!

[frankderrico]

Rusty, that's great.
Some carbine collecting legend going on down south.
What a story!!! I love it.....Frank

[INLAND44]

Definitely an Ordnance bomb on both. The left one probably refinished since the bomb is so 'soft'.

[22mike]

Those are 2 seriously beautiful Carbines............

[Phrogpilot]

Ive got a number of Consec sets of Garands but who likes those BIG rifles anyway...LOL

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Have you posted pictures? Even if it is on the Garand forum, that would be interesting viewing. Personally I only have 4, that's enough of those "BIG rifles" for me.

Ive got a number of Consec sets of Garands but who likes those BIG rifles anyway...LOL

[Dave-In-Maine]

This begs the question, though: what is the largest number of consecutive serial numbers in a collection? 2? 3? 14?
This also re-inspired me. I was reasonably content having 2 Underwoods from the same serial number block; one all original (never modified, never restored), and the other a barely-fired post-war rebuild with all the updates.
Now, I obviously need more............

[Bubba-7]

The same person has Underwood E240 and E241 and posted pictures in the past. I have also seen E245 many years ago.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I've seen the pictures of E240 & E241. That is a special pair.

[Bubba-7]

I was in Mr Mac's collection before he died a year or two ago. He had boxes of Sisters and twins. Garands. I did not know at the time what they were.
Twins, a Winchester and a SA with the same serial number.
Sisters, a Winchester and a SA with consective numbers.
I was there buying carbines not interested in the Garands. He had another pile of consective numbered SA's or Winchesters. I was too busy looking at a late Inland receiver with an Inland 1944 barrel with what looked like a 22 caliber bore. He had not pluged the chamber to see what it was. But it was a real WWII Inland dated barrel in 22. No telling where that is now. It could have been .243 or .223 or .222, or something like that.