Sorry 'street' but NOT all of the grips that Hudson Sports provided for, were factory, wood or exotic material, but like the factory were subcontracted by Mr Bertschinger, the owner he was a large buyer and seller of guns in New York, and had grip makers make them for any and all "makes,models" got this info from a old friend named Merl Ray who knew him back then (Merl used to do the drawings for the Brownells brothers for their "gunsmith kinks" and I used to help him), he trained me on some things back in the early 1970s,fact I may even have a couple of "kinks" myself in the early vol 1 or 2 its been a LONG time ago, yes even had Dan Wesson as one of my 'mentors',so those ads bring back some memories......met & knew other big time gun guys from the east cost also.
They could buy, get, sell about anything in gun 'accessories' for Rugers & Colts & S&W..pearls were BIG out east back then.....more so on small Colts & S&W.
We got pearls for Bearcats, as well as the XR-3 's.........................
too hard ( as well as hardous to work with,the fumes) so seldom did the 'pearls' have medallions and if they did were much more 'costly' (both work wise & licensing from the gun companies to use their medallions/logos)
So Robb,bottom line "keep them" as one will never know for certain what or where they came from, who got them ,for "whom" (as Mr Ruger often had his guys do this or do that for 'whomever' .......) if they fit GOOD and look nice, hang on them, besides th 'raw material itself is costly and scarce...........Laura would never get rid of any of hers, they are what they are............ :wink:
and NO< never pay 'top dollar' for anything that cannot be "proven", they ALL have a 'story'.... :roll: