Thanks for letting me rant a little, and i mean no disrespect to the owner or future buyers or guys that do restoration work. 
I just shake my head when I look at that signature and wonder what the $#@ was the person thinking when they attempted to put that on there? Here you had a beautiful firearm and you need to deface it with that sort of amateur experimentation? some people do need a kick in the pants at times and this is a good example of one of them in my opinion. ... what did they use to make that signature a dull ring shank nail or an electric engraver??
