Late Improved Birds

[Dave Noreen]

I had never really paid attention to it but Remington era GHEs certainly have better birds than the thirty to forty years earlier "Flying Turnips."

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Maybe not up to modern day engraver's standards but quite an improvement from the earlier "folk art."

[Andrew Sacco]

Hahahahah. I think I have an early GH with things that look like warped eggs with oddly spaced eyes.

[Randy G Roberts]

A 1939 GHE 16 Ga.

[Dean Romig]

I believe Randy's GHE birds were engraved by Runge but the examples Dave shows are not familiar to me but they don't look like the work of Runge, to me anyhow.





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[Garry L Gordon]

Aestheticians are cringing at this discussion. :)

[Scott Janowski]

Here is an example from a late SBT that was an unfinished gun at the start of the war.
I believe it was finished by DelGrego Runge after the war.

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[Dean Romig]

That certainly looks like Runge’s engraving.





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