I'm calling it a "conservation" as opposed to a "restoration" since I can't get it back to original condition. It use to belong to a neighbor who has passed on several years ago. His widow gave it to me along with two other shotguns that were leaning up against the wall in the basement. One was a Westernfield pump (Mossberg 500) which was in decent shape so I sold it to a member of this forum. (Yes I gave her the money) This one needed a lot of work to keep it from going further downhill. It looks like it had never been cleaned as you can tell from the pictures. The stock was beat to hell. Turning out to be an interesting project and I'm learning a lot about this gun. The vintage is 1926 so 95 year old firearm. I don't believe it had much collector value considering the condition and from what I gather they made over 2 million of these up until 1980. Still a nice gun that should be around another hundred years if I can preserve it from further deterioration.