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I won the bubbaed Rentzschke engraved 99F on gun broker. I now have a consecutive numbered pair. Anyone have a 99F stock they want to part with?
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For those of us who haven't been paying attention.... can you possibly pictures please? 
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Well that seems to be a reasonable price with all things considered.
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I'm comfortable with the price. I'll get rid of the ugly recoil pad. If I can't find a buttstock I'll reshape the stock and put on a proper buttplate. The GB rifle's serial # is 928917. I already have 928916
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
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I have a buttstock in near perfect condition with buttplate.
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Congrats on two consecutive engraved rifles! Sweet!
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
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Sharp looking rifle for the price, gonna be a real beauty after the butt swap 👍
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I'm comfortable with the price. I'll get rid of the ugly recoil pad. If I can't find a buttstock I'll reshape the stock and put on a proper buttplate. The GB rifle's serial # is 928917. I already have 928916 Hopefully you can bring 'er back to life and restore it to near original glory.
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missedbycracky, PM on it's way.
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
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We have only turned up 5 so far that I have data on and that has been in recent years. Four are 308's, in .243 and David has it.
Two Rentsches', in two calibers and consecutively serialed... well done!
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My rifles aren't the only consecutive numbered engraved 99's. Brent Geistweidt has two consecutively numbered 99DE's, both 284 W. The serial #'s are 1,145,395 and 1,145,396. They both have blued receivers. They are covered in my engraved Savage book pages 143 and 144.
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
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We have only turned up 5 so far that I have data on and that has been in recent years. Four are 308's, in .243 and David has it.
Two Rentzschke's, in two calibers and consecutively serialed... well done! Evidently Mr. Rentzschke was a graduate of Southern Illinois University class of '67. Can't 'splain that one. Yet. This would have been after his time at Savage (~1956-1960) and as he went on to Springfield Technical Community College in MA. (~1967-1978) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/df7rOvw.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/RcktRxW.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/stYae8A.jpg)
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Not enough money in it, or maybe hand problems?
Just spitballing there 🤷♂️
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I think Rentzschke was the last of the in-house Savage engravers. Though only there for ~4 years and performed other functions as well.
By that time, Savage was basically out of the in-house engraving business as Rentzschke engraved a few 99F's and the One Millionth 99.
It appears Savage hired out engraving after that and that included work by Rentzschke and probably some others who remain unknown at this time.
Probably a career change driven by the engraving climate and other factors.
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Went from engraving guns to teaching economics.
Wow.
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