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Who did the gold inlay work? Looks like Claus or Emil Willig possibly but not fine enough on the scrolling.

On the bottom of the receiver is says engraved by Floyd E. Warren in 1976....







This 99 is currently at the best checkering man in the business. He also will refinish the wood and bring out all the hidden grain. I'll post new pictures when I pick up the gun this spring.

Savage99F358

That is a beautiful gun!

Yours is for sure a beautiful gun. Good on you for increasing the beauty even more with the top notch woodwork. That gun will for sure qualify as a family heirloom. Congratulations.
JW

And this one ain't no .30-30 either

He has a REAL pretty 30-30.

I wonder why we see a lot of Germanic-style engraving (heavy handed, oak leaves, big bold animals, etc.) on rifles and more elegant tasteful engraving on quality shotguns? Perhaps it speaks to the aesthetics of gunners with different approaches to the game, or perhaps the end use of said guns, or...?

Big game animals on rifles,birds and bird dogs on shotguns makes perfect sense to me!! but what to do on those damned Drillings ???????

Nekkid womens?!

I saw (and almost bought) an Ithaca Grade 4E, in 16 gauge, the other day with an Elephant on one side and a Water Buffalo on the other. Seemed out of place to me but clearly factory work. Wish I had got it but it was at a pawn shop and they had to hold it for 30 days... when I went in on day 32, it was gone.

This seems to have that finer engraving often associated with shotguns:

I do like that, I am assuming it's not the one you have shot...

Gene - you are correct, I have not shot this one.

Steve
Very Nice
Whats On the Other Side? Same Pattern?
Steve

Steve - yes it is the same engraving on both sides.

The 4E is a beautiful gun. My uncle shot a 4E single barrel trap for many years.

There has been nothing on engraved 22's yet - here is what you could get from Sear's & Roebuck before WWI. The catalog page is from 1916, the company, Meriden , was started and owned by Sears & Roebuck. The engraving was probably contracted through the shop of William H. Gough who is said to have done work for several companies, including the high end A. J. Aubrey branded shotguns produced by Meriden; some sources say he had a few engravers working for him. I believe his shop also did Savage's engraving after Tue.

From the catalog page -

"This rifle is manufactured under patents granted Basil H. Savage, one of the world's foremost inventors of fire arms."

- IMO it was probably designed by A. W. Savage and just patented by Basil to avoid legal issue with Savage Arms because of a no competition agreement AWS had made with them.


The three bottom rifles would have cost $4.45 more than the top one in 1916.





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These did not hold there finish very well, it tended to flack off as certain years of Winchesters did.

The animals do look cartoonish, but you almost have to magnify them to see that - the upright rabbit is about 1/8" by 3/8" tall and the sitting squirrel is about 3/8" by 3/8".

Gene - lots of engraved .22 rifles to be proud of. Too bad they are in an obsolete caliber (i.e. no longer available)

here is the 4E with the Elephant and Water Buffalo... sorry for the truly terrible cell phone pictures.





Looked a little out of place on a 16gauge shotgun.