I believe this only makes my second engraved gun, so I am not the one to ask about engraving. However, the experts that we did consult, believe it is a Kornbrath moose, possibly with Fugger doing the surrounding scroll work.
No bargains from the bigger dealers who know what they have. My goal at any gun show it to find the sleeper. The gun that the dealer does not really know what it is. The Tom Burgess/R.G. Owen that Nick brought to your shop earlier this year I found sitting on a table with a bunch of hardware store guns at Tulsa a few years ago. It was dirty and unkept at the time and I paid about what you would pay for a used Rem 700. In addition to the Hutton rifle, at this show I also found a very nicely stocked .270 that had D Erhardt engraved on the barrel. I suspect you know who that is. I paid probably about a third of what you would spend just on the stock today. And the checkering on it is a beautifully executed point pattern with border so that kind of makes up for the checkering on the above rifle.
John
