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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
Art, the catalog picture of the 201E does not show any high relief or game scene engraving. In fact, it looks almost identical to the OP's 200E.
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What year was the catalog? I don't have and have never owned a Merkel catalog, so I can't speak to that. I just did a Google search for Merkel 201E and the first 10 or 12 that popped up all show 201E's with game scene engraving. Rock Island, Morphys, Christies and others are consistent along with several knowledgeable (my opinion) internet posters. This link:
https://www.hallowellco.com/traditio...kel_grades.htm
leads to a link at Hallowell that shows the difference and describes them.
Don't know what to conclude about the catalog, but there is a lot of information that says otherwise. The only variant I found was a game scene engraved gun for sale listed as a 200E, which I had to suspect was actually a mis-identified 201E by a poster with limited knowledge.
A second search turns up numerous listings too, which consistently show scroll engraving.
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