You can also look backwards through one tube of a pair of binoculars. Place the object under examination within an inch or closer to the eyepiece. Having good illumination helps!

I had a potato chip with Elvis' head on it, but I ate it.

Edgar did you use your right arm:cuss:

BINGO !!

Bob Kimble was kind enough to send me a high quality loupe and with the extra power afforded by it it became evident that the impressions in the inside of my trigger guard were made by the jaws of a vise. Probably to hold it stationary as it was being engraved in Meriden.

Thanks Bob!






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I've seen plenty of guns and other things over the years that were marred by vises...

I've seen plenty of people marred by vices.....

Greg, you beat me to that comment

You're welcome Dean. Glad to help.

Trigger guards getting stuck onto plates is not all that uncommon. Sometimes they just will not turn off. I am sure more than one has had pliers put on the fronts of them to free them.
Of course, there is better ways to do it than that.

The marks, being on the medial side of the trigger guard bow, and there being no corresponding marks on the lateral side of the bow, leads me to believe it was done at PB when it was held in place for engraving. Of course, I could be wrong... we'll never know.





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