Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Earliest Enoch Tue engraved rifle?

Some where i remember it being stated that other members of Tue's family did engraving at savage also, no to find where i saw it, Great information !!! Don

Writeup on the Tue work from page 2 of the Allen Mabe flyer. Wonder what he means by the term "300 qualified model 99 engraved rifles."?

Don, it does say here that he was helped occasionally by his son.

And that style on the Monarch is totally different than any I've seen before. What an artist!

And.. "Tue hand engraved all model numbers into his rifles"??

Anybody know what this means? Sorry that I'm so ignorant, but there's not a lot of study material out there for engraved Savage 99's.

Rory, that's a hell of a find! Pegging the number at 300 sounds much more plausible to me.

Don, if you check the list that Jed posted there is a Harry Tue that is listed as an engraver. He might be the son of Enoch.

Allen Mabe had 100 engraved rifles by Tue from 1900 through 1916. Considering that he managed to do that, is it reasonable that there are only 300?

1.5 engraved rifles a month sounds reasonable based on the little I've heard from other engravers.. but??

A quick glimpse at one that just sold on auction.

Grade B engraving, SN 38.8xx, November 1903. Can you imagine cranking something like this out in a coupl of weeks with tools from 105 years ago?

Whoops.. Don't forget a pistol for Buffalo Bill. 300 rifles and 1 pistol? :Grin:

http://www.icollector.com/item.aspx?lid=343820

Who had the most engrave Savages at one time?
Who still has all the info on that collection?

Leroy's is where we saw the rifle w/the brass plug in the chamber.
IIRC it had all Marlin motif's engraved on the reciever...and a Colt buttplate.
Rick should have a picture it.

Doug, the Allen Mabe collection is the largest collection I've heard of with engraved rifles. Was there one bigger?

Yes

FUG, A man of few words!!! Don

Okay Rick, Jed, Jeff, etc.. who had the largest collection?

The Dodge Collection (Texas?)is ringing a bell here.
I know Fug has quite a smathering of engraved rifles.

Is the question "who had" or "who has"? Most that have been named and some not named have been sold.

Who had the most engraved savages at any one time, he bought

the Allen Mabe collection and added to it with guns of his own

if I remenber correctly.

Hmm.. I built a background from some pictures of a collection that Jed posted a while back. They wouldn't/couldn't give out the owner of the collection, which was fine... everybody has a right to privacy. I'll repost my collage.

Jed, if I shouldn't post these let me know and I'll remove it asap..

Are these part of that collection?

Wow! Those are absolutely beautiful rifles. Whomever owns that collection is lucky indeed.

Thanks for making up the collage and sharing it,
Mike

Post some more...I don't tire of looking at them pics...and now wish we had taken many more.