Richard! It's a "N0-N0" to have stocks that overlap the engraving ! I also see that has happened on the cased pair. Pls get out your hacksaw and remove the tops of the offending stocks so that I can properly review all the engraving ! My sensibilities are ruffled! Mr. Quigley's work is beyond masterful, of course, as is Keith Brown's, of course. "War Plans" is an interesting panel scene. Was there any etching involved in the engraving work? Ed.
Ed:
What was I thinking?
I almost always take photos of my guns "naked" without the grips, but on this one I had to "leave something to the imagination"... and you appear to have a pretty active imagination.
Seriously, in looking back at the War Plans' photo session, I was so infatuated with Keith's grips that I failed to take any photos of the gun without the grips. For those of you without much imagination, I will tell you that the engraving is beautiful under the grips and both of the sides are fully covered with rich deep scroll consistent with and additive to the rest of the gun.
With that said, the engraving pattern was laid out by Phil with the understanding that these "fish mouth" shaped grips would be made and would cover some of the engraving. As a side note, on my wish list is a set of KB service length stocks (post war length) that would show
all of the engraving (for those that don't know, it is fun playing "musical grips"). Here are a few photos with some "other"/interim grips...
With some KB Ivories:
With some Thailand eBay specials...
I think that you would agree that the KB fish mouth targets should have a permanent home on the gun...
In the interim, next time I have the camera out, I will take a photo or two of the naked gun with all of the engraving shown and update this thread. In addition to the sides, there is also some cool engraving around the serial number on the butt of the grip - I'll take a photo of that as well.
On the cased pair - sorry, but there is no engraving under the grips, just smooth bare metal... from an engraving perspective, what you see is what you get with that pair.
