Eddy Gorecki

Plating / galvanizing engineer, born in 1926. Can be identified by the initials "EG" or "E.G." in the runouts (to be credited with Plated By).
The "G" is often etched as an inverted "5". See Images.

Initially based in the UK, where he founded Merlin Galvanic, London, England in 1979.
Relocated to the US ca. 1982, where he already had established Merlin Galvanic, Troy, MI in 1979, but soon moved to Dallas (Texas), where he established Merlin Galvanic Inc. in February 1983.