Winchester Model 21 Engraving

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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.

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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