Robert, Charles Jerred worked under Al Kraus and became a good friend of his. I believe he was hired in 1945, and only worked on Ideal Grades and was not a single trigger fitter.
On his own time, he did engravings for local people for some money or on the barter system. After the gun works closed, he also did some free lance engraving on pistols, but I don't believe he did any work on L.C. Smiths then because of the work to anneal and re-case harden.
One of the posters here did an article in the DGJ on Charles Jerred and owned one of his Field Grades turned into a Deluxe +. I'm sure he will read this and post more and correct anything I might have mis-stated.
