I am always saddened when I see a finely stocked shotgun or rifle, or fine metalwork, or engraving. Why would the artist not sign his or her fine work? Even just a pencil notation in the barrel channel, under the guard tang or butt plate.
I recently came across an excellent stocking of a Specialty LC Smith, no name anywhere, but the touchmark was applied under the plate, and in the forend, so now I must ask, who's mark is this? It was a single character, shaped like a cross, upright and the stems were stylized, broader at the ends, and pointed. Someone knows this artist, who is it?
