Doug,

Just a little note that might interest you. I was looking in my
copy of Steel Canvas by R.L.Wilson. In it he says that only about
90 Optimus Grades were built, and most had at least 9 gold inlays.
There's a paragraph about a gun that was built for President
Benjamin Harrison, an Optimus Grade. The serial no. is 10784, and
the gun was built in 1884. There is also mention of a Lefever that
was considered one of the most elaborate ever made, that was on a
promotional illustration for R.J.Kornbrath dated 1914. Could he be
the engraver of the Optimus guns? Just a thought. Ron