headoftheholler
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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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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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Could it be by the Master . Fred Adolf ???????????????
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sbs470
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Actually It looks more like Rudolf Kornbrath
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ChrisPer
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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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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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Utterly amazing.
Not our man, IMO.
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