Well duh, why didn’t I think of that?
Actually I looked inside the other day looking for the distinctive ‘Roper’ marks but none were there. Today I looked again in bright light, and lo and behold, the grips are signed, plain as day!
A Google search on ‘Henry Brauniche’ turned up nothing. What say you guys?
Sadly there is a chip missing. When I was given this gun, it had spent years just rattling around in a drawer of a metal filing cabinet....