What amazes me is that Savage only charged $40 for Grade E engraving (which is the type I believe is on this rifle, not counting the add-on presentation engraving). Per Google, the average american annual wage in 1900 was $449.80. Assuming 2000 work hours a year, that works out to $0.225/hr. I would think a skilled artisan engraver like Tue would have been paid more than that. At 50 cents an hour, the engraving would have taken less than 80 hours for Savage to only charge $40 for it.
