Up graded my Colt SAA 45
 

by having the ivory grips carved by Kirk Ratajesak:

Thats an awesome SAA and the grips compliment it perfectly. Do you know who did the engraving? Factory?

Charlie

Very nice Hugh, bit more BBQ than I like, but very nice.,


Grip work http://www.kgratajesak.com/

Hugh, It is you! Now if it were only in 7.65 Parabellum. . .

Here are a few more fancy ingraved Colts along with some other nice guns.

Here's another engraved Colt but probably more fitting for a goat or camel BBQ.

There is something about exquisitely engraved guns....

Tom A

George,
That is the first porno engraved gun I have seen!:eek:

I'm guessing this came out of Mexico. I've seen similar "racy" engraving on guns down there.
This is what I would call a "Cantina" gun!

It came out of Italy by way of Switzerland and is closer now to Mexico than it ever has been. The engravings, though erotic, are all subjects out of classical mythology.

Charlie, I don't know who the engraver was, here is his mark:

This one surfaced in Belgium a while ago. 1900 Swiss with some exquisit engraving and guilding work done to it.

(and it's for sale :), sadly not by me though).

The gold engraved Colt auto left Hartford in 1914 to Bond Street, London, thence to Cairo, then to New Orleans, then to NJ, then to Virginia.

Tom A

That Swiss is exquisite.

Charlie

Tom, was the Colt factory engraved? By any of the more famous Colt engravers?