You have to consider that your gun was made by several men working on part of its making instead of one person doing everything from start to finish. I doubt the elapsed time to be less than three months or more than six. It went out for proof one or more to times, went out to be engraved. Stock finish takes time to cure. It all adds up. And even good labor did not cost that much. Some guns were made in advance and left in the white to make rapid delivery possible for special orders