I don't believe the story that H M Pope had it engraved. RIA had a S&W single shot target pistol for sale a couple of yrs. ago with a case & engraved plaque showing it had belonged to a somewhat famous & notorious shooter last name of Snook [executed for murdering his wife]. It also stated he had won a gold medal at the Olympic's with it. I notified them that I had documentation & where to find it, that Snook, had been there as an alternate, and had been called up to replace one of the shooters on the revolver team, which had won the gold medal, not the pistol team. They corrected the listing to say he had won a gold medal but not with the pistol. The last time I checked, you could still look the pistol up on their site.