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Bill,
Raimey will post them,or you can bring it down if you want. I have to admit that I know next to nothing about the engraving; in spite of the fact that I lived in Germany and knew several engravers personally.The advantage of posting them is that the engravers on the forum can see them and may recognize the work.
Mike

I sent the file to your email add. Thanks

That would be Raimey's email.

Link to Photobucket album:

http://s209.photobucket.com/user/bedunba...667096599629535

Very good Bill, just copy the IMG Code at the bottom of the links portion and paste it. Lovely upper and lower scear A&D breech-loader.





Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Using the link to the album anyone wishing to view will have the tools to zoom or whatever.. It's a public album.

Bill D,
This is not regular "run of the mill" pattern engraving. One of the engravers may actually recognize the work.
Mike

Mike, my father talked about seeing pictures of works the engraver and family had done for royality, especially for those hunting in India. I've had some discussions with collectors of german guns and they are the ones who called it a "best gun". Given that it was proofed 950 and my father telling me that the engraver could no longer get gold for inlay's, like he wanted, I think it is a unusal gun for the time period. For sure not the usual guild gun.

I'd say "best work" is a proper grade, if the rest of the gun is worty of the engraving, and I'd bet heavily it is, too. We can only imagine what it might have been had gold been available. Ah, yes, what might have been.

Best of luck in ID'ing the genius that did it.

DDA