I don’t know any Italian engravers working in the US. Closest I got was a Frenchman. Bet I talked with him once a week for a year when he took over importing Darne guns. But, it seems different now, you look at a webpage for engravers, and, there was a time I knew a few that were top notch, and there isn’t anybody I can think of, now. You could find a guy, right here, a good guy.
You are right, I wasn’t going to buy any of Winston’s work. But, that doesn’t mean I was going to have flying turnips engraved by grandma Moses on a gun, either.
I have a little patch of engraving I bought from Geoffroy. It was his idea, and I did it. Glad I did, but, I sure didn’t realize it was going to be the only chance I ever got to do that.
Good luck finding an engraver, Brian.
Best,
Ted