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A gun engraved with my name would definately lessen it's value.
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So much for provenance. I'll never buy a Clark Gable gun. By the way, a Bill Wise Lindner was sold at the Vintagers. Maybe the buyer will speak up.
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Wouldn't matter a lick to me, if I liked the gun otherwise. I might try to convince the seller that it made it worth less, however. That's just part of the game.
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Speaking of Clark Gable, here is a partial entry from the 1934 Abercrombie & Fitch Firearms Inventory and Gun Sales. As I was pointing out to everyone that I could buttonhole at the display I had at the Vintagers, on December 7, 1934 Clark Gable bought a G&H rifle in 30-06 for Constance Bennet, his co-star in a movie at that time called "After Office Hours". Possibly a very nice Christmas present. 
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If it is a gun you own and you plan to keep until the end, then I think the point is moot. If it is a gun you're thinking about buying, then I would think an owner's initials or name could add some intrigue to the gun if done tastefully and skillfully.
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Bob Beach, do the G&H ledgers include the G&H number? Sorry I missed you at the Vintagers but you seemed to be busy whenever I was in the booth. Bill Murphy
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Bill,
Yes, the A&F records list the G&H barrel number as the serial number, but only those guns sold through the A&F store are listed. Ironically, we do not have the sales records for the firearms sold directly through Griffin & Howe before 1976. Early on, both A&F and G&H had their own building, showroom and inventory and the A&F records show guns transferred to and from the G&H inventory. In a very few cases a 'used' rifle with its production serial nummber is shown as transferred to G&H to become G&H rifle number xxx.
Bob Beach
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I bought this Colt 1883 (with the awful restock job) some years back simply because I liked the engraving and the initials shown here intrigued me. 
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You probably won't buy Clark Gable's Model 12 that he sold to Roy Rogers, eightbore. A few years ago the gun sold for $35,000.00.
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Bob, thank you for the information. The early G&H numbers would be among the most interesting information in your research project. Alex, restock or not, I would be requesting a Colt letter on that gun.
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