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Louis Daniel Nimschke (July 4, 1832 – April 29, 1904) was a master firearms engraver of the 19th century who engraved over 5,000 firearms between 1850 and 1904 for Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co., Winchester, [1] Remington, Sharps, Smith & Wesson, Henry, Marlin Firearms and Stevens Arms.
Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...
In 1967, Bojalad was referred to FAMARS by another Italian gun manufacturer named Beretta. His request was an over/under shotgun with interchangeable barrels, adorned with engraving art. Upon receiving his first FAMARS gun, Bojalad was so impressed that he placed several more orders and became a lifelong client of Abbiatico and Salvinelli.
Malcolm Appleby MBE (born 1946 in West Wickham) [1] is a Scottish engraver. His public and private commissions include: the monde (orb) of the Coronet of Charles, Prince of Wales (1969); a 500th anniversary silver cup for the London Assay Office (1978); a raven gun for the Royal Armouries (1986); a cruet set for 10 Downing Street, commissioned by The Silver Trust (1988); a sculptural ...
The Art of Engraving. Montezuma, Iowa: F. Brownell & Son, Publishers, Inc. LOC 73-84371. Newell, A.Donald (1949). Gunstock Finishing & Care: A Textbook, covering the various Means and Methods by which modern Protective and Decorative Coatings may be applied in the correct and suitable Finishing of Gun and Rifle Stocks. For Amateur and ...
His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America , continued by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward and published around 1856.
Etching, gouache, aquatint, drypoint and engraving 15.3 x 20.5 This is how it happened: Etching, gouache, drypoint and engraving 15.4 x 20.6 A cruel shame! Etching, gouache and engraving 15.3 x 20.5 A woman's charity: Etching, gouache and engraving 15.4 x 20.5 Unhappy mother: Etching, aquatint and drypoint 15.5 x 20.7 Thanks to the grasspea
Ormsby was an excellent line engraver and was called upon for a great deal of work for bank notes were in wide use by the Government at the time of the Civil War.He designed the five-dollar note, intended to prevent counterfeiting and was the author of several pamphlets, including, "Cycloidal Configurations" or the Harvest of Counterfeiture, and a volume on paper-money engraving entitled, A ...