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Unread 05-02-2009, 02:54 AM   #1
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Default Up graded my Colt SAA 45

by having the ivory grips carved by Kirk Ratajesak:
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Unread 05-02-2009, 09:10 AM   #2
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Thats an awesome SAA and the grips compliment it perfectly. Do you know who did the engraving? Factory?

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Unread 05-02-2009, 12:24 PM   #3
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...Do you know who did the engraving? Factory?

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


Grip work http://www.kgratajesak.com/
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Hugh, It is you! Now if it were only in 7.65 Parabellum. . .
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Here are a few more fancy ingraved Colts along with some other nice guns.
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Here's another engraved Colt but probably more fitting for a goat or camel BBQ.
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There is something about exquisitely engraved guns....

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George,
That is the first porno engraved gun I have seen!
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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!
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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.
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Charlie, I don't know who the engraver was, here is his mark:
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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).
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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.

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That Swiss is exquisite.

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