Favorite scene engraving

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

Lefevers and LC Smiths lead the pack in engraving.

Agree 100%. Nothing better than the engraving on a Grade 5/Crown.

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Jay Gardner

Agree 100%. Nothing better than the engraving on a Grade 5/Crown.

One of my all-time favorites as well Jay. This is a 32" VR fully optioned 20.

[jeffery c]

My Lefever EE has nice engraving and the engineering and frame sculpturing design are the best. It's my favorite gun and the last one I'll part with. Yet I believe the Baker has better engraving, livelier and the figures and scene aren't restrained by an oval.

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by jefferyconnor

My Lefever EE has nice engraving and the engineering and frame sculpturing design are the best. It's my favorite gun and the last one I'll part with. Yet I believe the Baker has better engraving, livelier and the figures and scene aren't restrained by an oval.

There seems to be a consensus who did the best engraving for LeFever, who was it?

[jeffery c]

Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts

One of my all-time favorites as well Jay. This is a 32" VR fully optioned 20.

Beautiful engraving! Are the dogs full relief? Or cut in as line drawings?

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by jefferyconnor

Beautiful engraving! Are the dogs full relief? Or cut in as line drawings?

Jeffery they are not relief style.

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by jefferyconnor

Beautiful engraving! Are the dogs full relief? Or cut in as line drawings?

The entire scene is relief engraving. And the more wear, the better it looks because the deep background doesn’t have nearly the exposure to handling. The dogs, the trees, the fences, the rocks. Now,
Some guns have deeper engraving than others but I’ve never seen a 5 or a Crown that didn’t look realistic. And the dogs actually look like dogs, not cartoon characters scratched out on a piece of scrap paper over beers at a bar.

[Setter Man]

Originally Posted by jefferyconnor

Beautiful engraving! Are the dogs full relief? Or cut in as line drawings?

[Researcher]

Lefevers and LC Smiths lead the pack in engraving.

Can only buy into half of that statement!!

[Researcher]

There seems to be a consensus who did the best engraving for LeFever, who was it?

Being in Syracuse, New York, a lot of the Lefever engraving was likely done by Spangler and members of the Glahn family.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...ighlight=Glahn