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This page is divided into three sections.  The first section contains Winchester catalogs for the Model 21 which have engraving plates, The second section consists of photographs of documented factory engraved guns (if you'd like to share photographs of your gun I'd be glad to add them to the page, send me an e-mail). The third section consists of 'shop' catalogs and price lists that included engraving plates.


Model 21 Catalog, ©1933, W.R.A. Co., Form#1264



Custom Built Rifles and Shotguns - 1935



Form #1423



Form #1926




Form #2111


       
Custom Built - Skeet, #4,320 #5A Pattern
Customer: L.A. Tift
November 16, 1933
Engraver: G. Ulrich



c.1950 Grand American
Engraver: Nick Kusmit
(engraver’s initials within the circle indicate the engraving was not executed at the factory)



M-21 - #12,201
Customer: Thormond Chatham
Order Number: 54-498-232A
Built:10-16-56
print number: 12,201-3



(click HERE for and extreme close-up)
Model 21 - #12,623
Customer: Mrs. Nichols
Order Number: 54-498-29A
Built: 5-8-57
Engraver: John Kusmit


Model 21 Grand American - #unk
Photos of the Custom Shop Era gun supplied by a former Custom Shop Employee



Model 21 Grand American Forearm - #unk2
A photo of another forearm, apparently engraved by the same artisan as the forearm above.
The checkering may have been done by the same checkerer, too.


 
Model 21 - #unk
20 Gauge
Engraver: Nick Kusmit - after-market c.1990



Model 21 - #9,275
20 Gauge
Engraver: G. Ulrich
Built: c.1939




Wholesale-Retail Price List
Effective December 15, 1950
Catalog Form #2048
The most common plates found, these appeared in catalogs from 1951 through 1959, the end of the production era.


Catalogs with Engraving Plates
Note Distributor - Jobber Editions also exist for most of the Catalogs.

 


Retail Price List and General Catalog, February 2, 1950, Form #2014

 


Wholesale-Retail Price List and General Catalog, September 12, 1950, Form #2044

 

The only engraving plate shown is the #6 pattern, the same as in Model 21 Catalog #1926

 


Retail Price List and General Catalog,, December 15,1950 Form #2050


Wholesale-Retail Price List and General Catalog, December 15,1950 Form #2048


Winchester Firearms  Undated-Accompanied Letter Dated Oct. 13, 1952, Form #2037

 

 


Winchester Firearms  Undated-Form #2037R-53


Winchester Firearms
Undated Features .458 Winchester Magnum
No Form #


Winchester Firearms
Undated Features Model 50
Form #2281

 

This group has the same engraving plates as Model 21 Catalog #2111 above.

 


Wholesale-Retail Price List - 1961,
January 3, 1961,
Form #1F001A


Wholesale - Retail Price List - 1962
January 2, 1962
Form #2F001a


Wholesale - Retail Price List 1963
January 2, 1963
Form #3F001A

 

This Custom Shop Era group contains plates of the Grand American and Custom Grades.

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