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Picture from Adolph catalog, more to follow. 
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The wood is very dry and just soaks up any oil I put on it, it will be awhile before it looks right. The rifle shows little to no use.  
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And the story continues. Next.
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Michael,
Is that what Santa brung you? You must've been very good.
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Brent, Not sure good had anything to do with it ;-). I'm still amazed that a rifle almost a hunderd years old is in this kind of shape. The bore is as mint as the day it left Rock-Island. I have for a long time tried to locate one of the early Adolph Springfields with the carving & checkering on the side. I'm still in shock over getting both the Adolph packet of papers and the rifle within a week of each other.
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This is a little Adolph Kurz (short) Mauser.  
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Mike, that's wonderful. The newish Springfield and , of course, the little rifle.
I was thinking that we sometimes "assume" but are not totally sure that one engraver did a piece of work. It would make an interesting post to show engraving that we can document came from a certain engraver. What do you all think ? That way we might have samples to compare to engraving we are not positive about.
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I would like to second Daryl. I recall Joe Bayer, an engraver who still works part time for G&H and who worked with Joe Fugger, telling me that you could recognize when Fugger worked on a particular G&H rifle by the shape of the ampersand in the G&H name on the barrel. It might be a good idea to make a photographic record of these observations for future reference.
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Hi Bob,
I used to hunt with Joe Bayer at Ozzies farm in Belle Mead NJ as a boy. I remember eating dinner at Joes house when he brought out a couple of guns he had engraved and was floored by the artistry. I did not know Joe was a skilled engraver even though we had hunted together for many years. We stopped hunting Ozzies farm in the mid 80's as
Ozzie sold off much of his land, but we had many great times in triple A's club house and in the field in Belle Mead and at Gobblers knob in Griggstown.
I do stop in from time to time and say hello if Joe is at G & H.
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Well Michael, it looks like Santa was very nice to you, this year! Beautiful!
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