Lettering Examples (Digital photo's):
A Colt 1911A1 slide fully re-lettered:
Slide serrations are in-progress of being re-cut
A Colt 1911 (1917) fully re-lettered:
A Colt 1911 U. S Property. I guess I've put about a million of these back on!
A Colt 1908 slide fully re-lettered:
A 1918 Rampant Colt
A Smith & Wesson logo
Lettering Examples (Ink Prints of Lettering):
Note: These were done long before there was any such thing as a digital camera
Note: Due both to scanner distortion and monitor-pixel limitations, the following ink-print samples will not be as sharp as the actual engraved piece. Examples are shown larger than actual size.
The following is a 1911 Russian-contract left frame front and slide:
A Smith & Wesson address example:
An 1873 Winchester address example:
A Smith & Wesson logo example (enlarged):
A Colt SAA 2-line address
A pair of Colt SAA frames, prox 50,000 SN's apart, done one after the other.
The top one is a "touch-up" of weak lettering. The bottom one was
done from scratch.