We've seen a few other rifles that Gough seems to have engraved that were in the B, C, etc engraving styles.

Gough engraving on those rifles definitely did NOT look like Enoch Tue's versions.

This being a Gough engraved gun was one of my initial guesses, even before he got the letter saying there was a work order for the 30's.

But if Stippler engraved for Newton.. still possible it was Gough, but I'd lean towards a guess that it was his own work.

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