Maybe the upgrading of the engraving and checkering was done by Moran & Wolfersperger in Chicago when they installed their ejectors on the gun. They were on the verge of introducing their own single trigger, ejector, gun when they went belly up about 1905, and their ads said they had a complete staff capable of all manner of work. They had outbid Ansley H. Fox for the stock duplicating machines of Baltimore Arms Co. at the BAC receiver's sale in late 1904. After M&W dissolved, their aftermarket ejector business went to Gus Habich in Indianapolis by 1906, so it is also possible the work could have been done there. All speculation other than we know the gun at one time had M&W ejectors by the pin and the milled slots in the knuckle.
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