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Bad engraving can ruin even the best quality gun. Great engraving may improve a gun but not that much too me. Some of the early engraving would be better off removed with a file. Laughing dogs, flying turnips and bird with barbie doll proportions are just a real turn off. Bulino engraving and engraving that looks like a photo does not turn me on either. Less is more if done well and more is just a waste if not done well. More guns have been ruined by bad engraving than anything other that rust or a torch.
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In the latest issue of the DGJ, there is a article by Walt Synder, great article about a fine exmaple of an Ithaca Crass. Beautiful engraving on the sides, top, but not so nice on the bottom. It has scroll engraving around the center showing a rabbit running and a cartoon like dog looking at it, with things that look like Pterodactyls flying.
Sorry, but I'm sure others will agree
David
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In the latest issue of the DGJ, there is a article by Walt Synder, great article about a fine exmaple of an Ithaca Crass. Beautiful engraving on the sides, top, but not so nice on the bottom. It has scroll engraving around the center showing a rabbit running and a cartoon like dog looking at it, with things that look like Pterodactyls flying.
Sorry, but I'm sure others will agree Yup, agree.......
Doug
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Done well it really enhances the gun:
Very classy jaybird..... no cartoon birds or dogs or people...  Best,
Doug
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Rosie O'Donnel with a spear...LOL!! 
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Engraving is art and therefor very subjective, there is something out there for everyone. What I like my not appeal to others and that's just fine. The floorplate is from a rifle made for L.C. Smith's son Burns Lyman Smith. 
MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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Very beautiful, Michael. What ARE those two creatures holding onto Dianna for dear life?
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Too Funny Clif W!!  Michael: That sure as hell isn't Rosie!!  I've got some examples in an Italian engraving book that would probably be considered porno if I posted them here! Jim
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Very beautiful, Michael. What ARE those two creatures holding onto Dianna for dear life? The one on the left looks like a chimp with a pigs head.
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