I may have jumped the gun Dean. I agree completely with your observations on the different hands on the dogs and the scrolls. It just looked like an attempt to chase worn engraving with a very amateur hand to me. The side scrolls dont look the same as those on the floorplate, and the peaks or semi-scrolls around the border of the receiver side are not what I have seen on Grade 3's before. You may be exactly right, but I, for one, would have sent this back to the factory a hundred and twenty years ago and told them to send me another. Thanks.
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