The different styles (oak leak on the cyl,, and scroll on frame & bbl) being used on the same gun isn't totally uncommon. Most times it's used, the minor style,the oakleaf in this case shows up on other areas of the gun even if just a 'touch' here or there..
What strikes me the most about the 2 different styles is that the oakleaf, for what little there is of it, looks much cleaner cut than the scroll pattern.
The scroll cutter had kind of a tough time on the rounded surfaces of the frame and bbl keeping things in order. The flat surfaces scroll have quite a few knees and elbows to them too.
The cylinder oakleaf engraving is cleaner cut IMO. A simple but effective leaf & acorn pattern was used but the engraver seems to be more in control than with the scroll cut.
It looks like a double line border cut, (thick & thin line), was used on the cylinder. Nice steady, even border line cuts around the back end of the flutes. Simple looking, but can be tough for many engravers to do,,there's no hard edge at the back end of the flute to use as a guide to run a trace scribe around.
On the rest of the gun just a simple single thin border line was used.
Could be the same engraver of course, it's just that pattern, border and background elements don't usually show that much difference on the same gun from the same engraver.
Maybe a different engraver,,a replacement cylinder (check the ser#) cut later and added,
..or maybe they just wanted something just like we're looking at and all this speculation is for nothing!
You never know about them artists
Just some observations,,
Congrats on a nice looking revolver. Hope it shoots as good as it looks.
