If it matches the description in the records, it may be a "Friday afternoon" gun. Many times an engraver, rather than start a new receiver at the end of the last day of a long week, would add small extra adornments in the form of extra coils of scroll or in the case of game scenes a tiny bird or insect. Other times the engraver, hearing or knowing a favorite motif of the person that ordered the gun, would add touches of that motif. There is a very well known high grade (AA or A1S, I forget which) that has a bumble bee engraved on the orbit each breech ball.
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