RE engraving,

Huvius you're on the money!

Much of what is out there isn't as it's pantographed by a CNC milling machine and acid etched as with the standard Browning and Miroku etc patterns.

Traditionally the Germans faked deep relief by dropping the background and then scratching the outlined figures to delineate muscle groups.

There has been a few german, pommy and italian stuff shown here recently that makes me chuckle somewhat. Pity I'm not that computer literate that I can photoshop to show you the stuff ups but there are many.