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Does anyone have a Sedgley De-lux with engraving on the floorplate that we can look at. Here are two, Dan's on the left mine on the right. Looks like the same pattern but different engravers? Dan's looks like a deer, mine not so much. 
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Found another one online, 
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Dan's looks like a whitetail, your looks like Rudolph. But I like your scrollwork and borders are better. Shading rather than zig-zag... The third a modified version, but all three were done in a hurry for a fixed price. Same pattern, three different hands. Handsome nevertheless
(Dan's photo was under fluorescent light.)
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Are the rifles in question engraved else where on the gun or only on the floorplate?
Reason I ask is because if only on floorplate and/or trigger guard maybe Segley was buying the plates from a supplier, maybe in Europe, and then if you wanted an engraved plate he had them in stock.
Just a thought.
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I always love to see two guns of the exact same model done by different engravers. Boy, can they ever vary in artistic quality and precise workmanship.
Once had two Zoli boxlock SXS doubles of the same model only about 100 numbers apart. The IC/M 26" was done by a master who must not have had a higher grade gun to work on at the time. The M/F 28" was done by an apprentice (I hope). WORLDS apart in execution.
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Everything is engraved on the De-luxe model. 
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No, my photo was in shaded sunlight with some leaks in the shade! I was trying to keep my body as a shield from any direct sunlight.
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The floor plate cutting style (especially #'s 2&3 because of the heavy use of liner cuts) look alot like Wm. Gough's style of work that he did mostly on contract work after WW1.
His 'second generation' Fox A & B patterns & Colt engravings are a couple of good examples of that style.
Designed to be cut quickly (cheaply) and by apprentice & journeyman engravers he had working for him.
Maybe Sedgely was a customer too. Just a guess of course..
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Thanks for posting that Michael - I've never seen an engraved Sedgley before. I would have to describe the engraving as "workmanlike". I've seen a ton of German engraving that was of similar quality - meant basically to fill the space in an attractive way rather than be a tour-de-force.
And I have to say that I like his cheekpiece (of that shape) better than Griffin and Howe's version of it. That reverse curl is really beautiful. These rifles don't take a back seat to anybody in my book.
Last edited by Ryan McNabb; 09/07/11 10:48 PM.
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