So from the other campfire thread... Spittler was in charge of the stock making dept at Newton Arms, and also engraver for however many Newton guns were engraved. When Spittler later returned to Savage somebody else took over engraving at Newton.

If Spittler did engraving for Newton, he had to learn it somewhere? Or possibly self-taught? I'm guessing he might have apprenticed for a while under Tue.

So he might have bought the gun and engraved it on his own time, like Tue did with the Enoch Tue and King guns. Based off the D engraving patterns from Savage.

I think there might be some name confusion also. There was a John Vincent Spitler (one T) who worked for Savage as a toolmaker in 1918, he'd have been 28 years old in 1909.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/12960319/o-t-maybe#Post12960319
Originally Posted by oldgunsmith
John Spittler (Savage) was
foreman of the stock making
department. Spittler was also the principal engraver until his return to Savage. At that time Lynn Hakes took over as engraver. Mr. Spittler joined with Newton Arms in February 1916.

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