Comments on: Beautiful Engraving, 1500′s to 1800′s. http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200702/beautiful-engraving-1500s-to-1800s/ The lighter side of Steampunk Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Necrotek http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200702/beautiful-engraving-1500s-to-1800s/#comment-9103 Necrotek Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:19:10 +0000 http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/?p=342#comment-9103 <p>Following the links back to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I found these Items of interest. <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=4&zoomFlag=1&viewmode=0&item=15%2E113%2E1%2D5%3B+29%2E158%2E885" rel="nofollow">Harquebus Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal</a>, <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=4&zoomFlag=1&viewmode=0&item=1986%2E265%2E1%2D2" rel="nofollow">Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great</a>, <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=18&zoomFlag=1&viewmode=0&item=06%2E1312" rel="nofollow">Square Piano</a> click on the zoom button to look at the detail close up.</p> Following the links back to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I found these Items of interest. Harquebus Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal, Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great, Square Piano click on the zoom button to look at the detail close up.

]]> By: Ordinal Malaprop http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200702/beautiful-engraving-1500s-to-1800s/#comment-9069 Ordinal Malaprop Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:43:19 +0000 http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/?p=342#comment-9069 <p>I have spent quite some time researching engraved pistols - with the hope, I might shamefully add, of reproducing them and selling them within Second Life, though they are rather hard to properly reproduce - but that is one of the finest I have seen.</p> <p>One must have some respect for such mass-produced yet iconic weapons as the Webley service revolver, but the charm of individually engraved items is something that the best Engine would be hard pressed to reproduce.</p> I have spent quite some time researching engraved pistols – with the hope, I might shamefully add, of reproducing them and selling them within Second Life, though they are rather hard to properly reproduce – but that is one of the finest I have seen.

One must have some respect for such mass-produced yet iconic weapons as the Webley service revolver, but the charm of individually engraved items is something that the best Engine would be hard pressed to reproduce.

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