Well, I just spent some quality time poring through my TPS and found the answer to at least one question: H. Gough did indeed sign at least some of his work in places other than under the trigger guard. While the appendix to the TPS lists all of the locations in the text where the name "Gough" appears it does not capture the places the name "Gough" appears in photo descriptions. In Chapter XV (as I recall - the one about show/special guns) there are several photos of fine guns engraved by H. Gough with at least one of them identified with a signature near one of the engraved animals (on the floor plate).
Also, according to the TPS, H. Gough started at Parker in 1887, so my understanding is that anything prior to that date is when he still lived in England and would not have been done by him. TPS suggests that the time period of approximately 1887 through around 1905 yielded a bunch of "show" guns and it would be reasonable to assume that the master-engraver's hand was used to make them.
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