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headoftheholler
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Help with engraving ID
#263860 - 20/04/15 02:53 AM

I picked this trigger guard up for my 1903 Springfield build. Very elaborate. I am thinking it is vintage work but who or where? I know a lot of the early American custom builders would farm engraving work out to Germany.

This is progress so far, still a lot of work left.

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ChrisPer
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Re: Help with engraving ID [Re: headoftheholler]
#264007 - 22/04/15 07:58 PM

Nice rifle! A classic American custom on the classic American action.

The engraving work uses relief to leave the original surface in large and relatively simple but quite well-crafted forms. It has nothing in common with the fine, highly detailed styles we see from classic European makers and engravers in the English scroll or German tradition, that I have seen in books or magazines or in my hands. I saw a LOT of their showier work 'in the Turkish taste' in the Istanbul military museum, and your piece is graphically stronger stuff than that.

Out of ignorance I resort to speculation that is from Texas or further south, by an artist that does things his own way, maybe self-taught. When you find him, he will be well-known in his area. No-one did work that competent without there being a fair few pieces done.

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sbs470
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Re: Help with engraving ID [Re: ChrisPer]
#264059 - 23/04/15 08:02 PM

Could it be by the Master . Fred Adolf ???????????????

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sbs470
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Re: Help with engraving ID [Re: sbs470]
#264061 - 23/04/15 08:18 PM

Actually It looks more like Rudolf Kornbrath

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ChrisPer
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Re: Help with engraving ID [Re: sbs470]
#264167 - 25/04/15 09:44 PM

Can you help us with some links to good examples of the work of those two?

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Igorrock
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Re: Help with engraving ID [Re: ChrisPer]
#264199 - 26/04/15 04:19 AM

Here is some examples of Kornbrath works:

http://www.hallowellco.com/rudolph_kornbrath.htm

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http://promaakari.wordpress.com/

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ChrisPer
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Re: Help with engraving ID [Re: Igorrock]
#264217 - 26/04/15 10:31 AM

Utterly amazing.

Not our man, IMO.

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