mitch
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It wernt me Sam, my early pieces are safely tucked away in a vault where they belong!!
i'm kinda hoping some of my early stuff is quietly rusting away in a landfill somewhere...
It wernt me Sam, my early pieces are safely tucked away in a vault where they belong!!
So who engraved this SAA?
I'm really new to engraving myself, so I can't tell who by looking at work. However, it does look a lot like some guns that have been posted here since January by an engraver in Mexico. Maybe one of the others knows who I'm talking about and I'm probably way off base. I will have to agree with you. I believe this site is awesome as far as what others post. I check it several times a day, but won't ask a question. Even this comment is likely to be ganged up on
I really doubt if you will find out the engraver. More than likely the initials on the ejector shroud are of the owner, not the engraver. Unless there is a name elsewhere like under the grips it would be near impossible to determine who did the work. I am going to be diplomatic here but the work is not of a "prolific" engraver in which a style could be easily identified. That said, knowing the engraver would not add to the value of the gun.
Tom recalls back to his time learning under his brother’s guidance, that Neil wouldn't allow him to commission work, or sell his engraving, until such a time as he considered Tom’s work that of a master engraver. It wasn't until 1987 that Tom received his first commissioned work, and that was at a gun show in Tucson, Arizona, when Neil consented to allow him to receive compensation for his work.
I wonder how this Pre-1987 SAA got out then?