I think that when an engraver was doing a panel layout, as I pointed out earlier, it may have been exceedingly difficult to make all the lines meet exactly where they should have.
I found another example of engraved lines not meeting exactly where they were meant to... take a look at page 90 of Volume Twenty-Three, Issue One (Spring 2012) of The Double Gun & Single Shot Journal and you will easily find it.
Pointing out this example in no way should be taken as a criticism of the author's (Austin's) article nor the uniqueness and high quality of the gun itself. It may well have been that an apprentice or journeyman engraver had done the borders and simpler tasks of engraving - after all, The Parker Story tells us it was done this way.
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