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The art deco bird looks like it was inspired by the bird's heads on the Chrysler Building.
And looking through those images online I came across a picture of an AH Fox with that very Chrysler bird head... very nice to look at.
I saved the image to file but can't post it here for some reason but if someone cares to send me a PM I will email the image so it can be posted here.... that is, if anyone's interested.
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There is a possible subtle technical precision and craftsmanship on the Spanish 10 that may be lost on me. However, given the $850 price tag for that as compared to my $400 3 iron oxford cheap Birmingham gun, I will take the engraving on the latter. But, in the end, everyone has their own preferences. 
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Your brummy looks to be really off the face and for some reason your sear pin doesn't look to be fitted all that well, the tumbler pin looks ill fitted too. Maybe just shadows or angles? Well, for 4 hundy, it has room for repair work.
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Agreed that there are some issues that need to be addressed, but I don't think being off face is one of them. It probably at a minimum needs a proper disassembly, inspection and maybe some adjustments though. Other than that, the barrel to action fit is actually super tight.
Last edited by Dan S. W.; 05/06/16 01:40 PM.
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This is a small point but aside from the example here of the Art Deco bird's head and the custom Fox gun, which is spectacular, most of the engraving being described as Art Deco is really Art Nouveau.
Aside from the stylistic differences, Art Nouveau's heyday was from 1890 until the start of WWI. Art Deco really only gained popularity (enough to be engraved on a gun) from the mid 1920's and reach it's peak in the 1930's. Think Chrysler and Empire State building in New York and my personal favorite, the Niagara Mohawk Power building in Syracuse.
So if you are wondering which is which, just consider the time frame of when the gun was made (or the pattern designed).
Last edited by canvasback; 05/04/16 08:25 AM.
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That's a disservice to cheap Spanish guns. Ugly is very ugly. I guess you could call the engraving style "American Moorish"...
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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