Re: UNKNOWN ENGRAVER ? can you help?
buckstix,
We frequently receive "Who done it" requests here, often with no images at all. Fortunately, your images are excellent for studying the work.
The work on your rifle is very high quality engraving with the oak leaves done in a sculpted relief style. The whole thing is very Gremanic. Without a signature or initials we may never know who did it. It could have been done by Griebel or Kornbrath though they often signed their work.
At the time that your gun was engraved it was common for custom gunmakers and gun owners to send their guns to Germany and Austria for engraving. That was due to post WWII economics that made it cheaper to send the gun to Europe for engraving than to wait and pay an equally qualified American engraver to do it. In later years Kornbrath also sent some of his work to Austria for that reason.
You didn't say who the gunmaker was. Sometimes a gunmaker worked with a particular engraver.
In any case you have a beautifully engraved rifle. Enjoy it.
Roger Bleile
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