Also, checkered, with pistol grip, and fancy walnut. In .30 - 30.
Also, checkered, with pistol grip, and fancy walnut. In .30 - 30.
Nice tease!! Now let's see the rest of the rifle!!
Here are more photographs.
I need a cigarette!!
What does that mean?Originally Posted by Big Al1
I think he was trying to say he prematurely ejected something in his pants after seeing those pics.What does that mean?
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Beautiful! Technically it's a model 99K, and 1927 was first year that Gough engraved for Savage. Enoch Tue, who had engraved for Savage Arms since 1899, passed away unexpectedly in the summer of 1927. Gough probably engraved this rifle either at his house or at Fox, where he did full time engraving. Savage would go on to buy Fox in 1929.
Thank you for this!
Is a biography available for Enoch Tue and/or William Gough?
I sent photographs of the engraving to David Royal, author of A Collectors Guide to the Savage 99 Rifle, and its Predecessors, the Savage 1895 and 1899, and his opinion is as follows:
“Definitely Gough's work. Or it could be an employee of his. Since it's an early 99K I'm pretty sure Gough did it.”
I was able to answer my own question with regards to William Gough:
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...engraver-gough
David Royal has a new book coming out on engraved and special Savage rifles, From what I hear I believe it will have chapters on Enoch Tue, William Gough and Rentzke.
And here’s the factory letter.
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