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    The Revolutionaries - Villa and Zapata

    I just completed the companion guns that go with the Single Action Army shown in an earlier Thread...and also seen in Issue 139 of The Engraver Magazine. These are consecutive numbered Government Model Colt .38 Supers - one dedicated to Pancho Villa, and the other to Emiliano Zapata...The...
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    Rod Cameron: an appreciation

    What a fine gentleman he was...always smiling, he loved engraving and engravers. He brought joy and excitement to our art and to our guild.
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    Ben Lane Jr.

    Attached is a photo of Ben and Kaye Lane
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    Ben Lane Jr.

    Ben Lane Jr. passed away this week. Ben was an outstanding engraver and a Founding Member of FEGA. We remember Ben for his wisdom and leadership throughout the formative years of FEGA. He was a Texan, a gentleman, and a FEGA and Colt Master with an easily identifiable kind of work based on...
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    The Gangsters, Capone & Dillinger

    I'm looking forward to seeing all my friends at FEGA, Las Vegas!
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    The Gangsters, Capone & Dillinger

    Thanks so much Sam, Marty and John - I promise better photos after the entire project is completed. Hope to see y'all in Vegas !
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    The Gangsters, Capone & Dillinger

    Will do Marty - this one did slow me down...may never recover!
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    The Gangsters, Capone & Dillinger

    The Gangsters have been underway for some time and the work is nearing completion. These 1911's were obtained from the Colt Custom Shop a number of years ago; I had them stored away waiting for the right job. They are consecutive serial numbers and built in the original 1911 configuration...
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    The Buffalo Bill Colt

    Most of the scroll and inlay work was done with a pneumatic tool - specifically the GRS 901 and Monarch hand pieces and the G8 GraverMax. The detail in the bison portrait and other small gold inlay area is done by hand with a burin or bulno pick.
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    The Buffalo Bill Colt

    See you there Marty!
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    The Buffalo Bill Colt

    Thanks....I spent many years in the jewelry store engraving letters on trophies, rings, watches, pendants and other jewelry accessories, so I learned about lettering early in my career. It's the most fun, I think, anyone can have hand engraving...designing, cutting and embellishing letters...
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    The Buffalo Bill Colt

    No, the engraver of the original is unknown. However, the gun was engraved at Colt during the Helfrich years - re: the Helfrich School. Cuno was the shop Master and he looked over and approved all engraving work. We would like to think that he was the engraver, but as we study the process...
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    The Buffalo Bill Colt

    This Buffalo Bill Colt is a re-creation of an original presented to Col. W. F. Cody as gift from his publisher, The J&H Mayer Company of New York in 1895. In addition to published articles, Mayer was the company that produced many of the original art porters and advertising for the Buffalo Bill...
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    Pancho and Emiliano - The Revolutionaries

    This Colt SAA was hipped from the Custom Shop with full blue and a non-fluted cylinder. My client's theme objective was to celebrate the Mexican Revolutionaries, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. These two were politically active in the early 1900's in suport of the farm workers and peasants...
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    1882 COLT DA .41 WITH FANCY ENGRAVING, ENGRAVER??

    You should invest in a Colt Archive Letter for that one. The work looks to be authentic late 1800's factory engraving. Could be Helfricht or one of his staff engravers...but it would be best to know to establish a true value for the gun. No one on this forum can tell you who engraved it...it...
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