Seemed all the responses so far leaned toward another country probably the way the animals are done. The rest of the work looks like a lot of engravers would do by the pictures provided. It's nicely done, the gun looks great. Sometimes when someone is trying to establish a price, the gun MAY be for sale. Been on this forum for a long time. I watch Gun-broker for engraved S&W's and hope to eventually buy one. At the point I PM'd you it seemed that with a cut bbl. (I like 5" barrels) and no famous name emerging for the art work, it may be a reasonable purchase if for sale. Didn't mean to offend you with the words I used before but some very knowledgeable have replied to this thread. Larry