It is my opinion that the gun, 205XXX was engraved by Frederick Anschutz during his tenure as senior, or chief, engraver between the years 1911 (when he took the position vacated by William Gough when he moved to Phila. to become the chief engraver for AH Fox) and 1930 or '31 when he passed away. The wedges engraved on the Damascus barrels (which many say are not original to the gun) may still very well have been engraved (and I have stated my opinion on this earlier in the discussion) by the same hand sometime between 1911 and 1923 - the year the gun was made...
The fact that the pattern and execution of the "fiddleheads" (as Edgar calls them) engraved on the frame doesn't match the pattern and execution of those in the barrel wedges does not preclude them from being engraved by the same person.
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