Beautiful Engraved RM - Orville Kuhl Style

[cougar015]

Richard,
Beautiful guns and it was great that you were able to acquire the RM at the symposium. It's right where it belongs. When 2152hq, handejector and Keith Brown all comment, you know you have something special. Congratulations and thanks for sharing another pair of you beautifully engraved guns.

 

[Art66]

Beautiful! Not overdone like some I've seen.

 

[raljr1]

Amazing pieces, Richard


Robert

 

[RKmesa]

One last thing that is different about this RM than any of the other ones that I own, is the numbered box, that...



...has an interesting end treatment...



... namely the spot stickers attached for the Call front sight and the Humpback hammer. I have seen lots of S&W boxes with "spot labels" pasted on (e.g. "nickel" pasted over the printed "blue"), but this is the first time I recall these "spot labels" pasted on a pre-war magnum box. I'm sure that this is not an anomoly, rather just the first time I recall seeing this treatment. Kind of cool.

 

[2152hq]

Reviving this thread..
I stumbled on to this info about engraver Orville J. Kuhl.

Engraver Orville Kuhl? Rem Sportsman 48 - 24hourcampfire

Quite a bit of info on his career and where he worked over the years of his life.
A couple of photos of guns and part of an article on a 28ga Win Mod he did for Robert Stack.

It also mentions that Mr Kuhl invented an electric welding process for his own use. That for attaching the gold and platinum figures he made and modeled to the firearms frames.

I had guessed a soft soldering technique after making and finish modeling the figures. Some sort of electric welding process is beyond that! It certainly leaves a clean and undisturbed surrounding surface.

One confusing point in the info. It gives DOD once as 1945 early in the article.
Then at the end of the article it says he died in 1972.
I believe 1972 is correct.
There is a game scene engraved square plate that he did shown in a mid '60's Guns Digest. They haphazardly split the full (small B&W) pic of the plate in two at the crease of the books pages. But it's there.