Looking at David's book and Murray's we see a number of engraved offerings in early production. Discounting the DE,PE gunswere any engraved guns produced post 1940?
Except for an unknown number (which is very low) in the 50's talked about in the thread, no engraved rifles in the 40's-50's.
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