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

I agree with you mills.........charlie

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

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.

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

Jeffrey C,

Early Paragons are wonderful guns. I have seen both a DeLuxe and an Excellencia that would make you cry, they were so detailed. The DeLuxe was signed by Mason...I haven't seen one since, sadly.

NDG

I would love to see pictures of the engraving of those two models! Does anyone here happen to have one?

Jeffery they are not relief style.

I realize I said Excellentia, I had W&C Scott on the brain when I said that. I'm forgetting at the moment what the other Baker grade name was...a step below DeLuxe. The gentleman who owned it asserted it was even rarer than the DeLuxe, but I wouldn't know.

Daryl H. could probably riff on Baker better than anybody...perhaps he'll chime in.

NDG

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.