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wolfbait said
I looked today at a 12″ 1920 1892 trapper. But it has 9″ wood and a soldered front sight base. No ATF letter, the owner knows nothing about these. I hate to pass up a good one, but will pass this up.
  

Probably a REAL SMART move.  12 inch short barreled carbines are very uncommon.  Within the first 288,000 1892’s that were produced there were only 57 of them!  Beyond that I have only seen 2 in the 690000 range (1912) in the past 14 years!  The fact that it had a 9 inch forend grip is most certainly a give away that it is not original.

Michael