low grade

[Kevin McCormack]

Occasionally you will see low-grade guns (P-, V- and G-grade) with a little more engraving on them. These are invariably what the factory engravers refer to as "Friday afternoon" guns; instead of starting a new gun late in the day, many engravers would linger over the gun on their bench to round out the day's work, which was paid by the hour. Characteristic touches included extra "curleycues" around the screws, bolder termination tails of straight lines and the like.

[Bill Murphy]

I spent what I thought was a great amount of money on having my long time project VH reengraved. Maybe I should have had a few extra lines added. By "long time project", I think I started in 1973 and finished it about two years ago. It had been at Frank Lefever and Son, Larry Del Grego and Son, Thierry Duguet, and fiinally, Doug Turnbull.