Most interesting - I bought a trashed out VH grade SN 129XXX with a perfect set of barrels (so marked) and had them fit to a very nice original GH Damascus gun receiver buttstock and forend SN 133XXX by Babe Del Grego sometime in the early 1990s. They were not marked with the "LDG" rebarreled stamp.
When I sold the gun I freely gave the restoration and the invoice history with copies of Del Grego's correspondence. The gun had good modern dimensions and beautiful wood for an early Grade 2 so it sold right away. Having dealt with Del Grego's since 1967, I have never seen the "LDG" stamp as depicted on any of the guns I observed on my many visits hanging out in their shopl
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