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  1. Roger Bleile

    Help ID Pachmayr engravier.

    I fully concur with John's comments above. The only American engraver (that I know of) employed by Pachmayr was Richard Boucher who signed some of his work "BOUCHER." Their go-to engraver in Germany was Erich Boessler. He signed with a tiny EB. you will see in the image below that the style of...
  2. Roger Bleile

    Franz Marktl

    Sad news. I met and spoke with Franz in Las Vegas a couple of times. He was a master of our art. R.I.P Franz Marktl
  3. Roger Bleile

    Scrolls Scrolls Everywhere

    I have seen that picture before and always wondered if it is natural or Photoshop.
  4. Roger Bleile

    Finally

    We have triplet fawns visit our back yard daily. Very cute.
  5. Roger Bleile

    S&W 32 long HE mod 1903 circa 1910 engraving style?

    "I wonder if the master engravers ever used other workers of less experience to add the punch circles." That was a common practice to use apprentices to do background punching and other less skilled tasks. I'm sure you will enjoy the book. It is very well done with hundreds of excellent images...
  6. Roger Bleile

    S&W 32 long HE mod 1903 circa 1910 engraving style?

    "Perhaps I'm attempting to read too much into the artistic expression." I think that is what you are doing. The scrollwork on the "hump" seems consistent with OY's style. On this and other Internet forums, scrollwork is frequently analyzed and critiqued to a degree heretofore unknown in...
  7. Roger Bleile

    S&W 32 long HE mod 1903 circa 1910 engraving style?

    To answer your first question, I have spent over forty years studying the work of gun engravers. For me, looking at the scrollwork of well established gun engravers is like an art expert who looks at a Vermeer and instantly knows who painted the work. Further I have a library of nearly every...
  8. Roger Bleile

    S&W 32 long HE mod 1903 circa 1910 engraving style?

    Nix, Your gun was engraved at the S&W factory by Oscar Young who was the son of Gustave Young and the brother of Eugene Young, all employed by S&W at one time or another.
  9. Roger Bleile

    What's your favorite 1911 to engrave?

    If you are engraving one for yourself for a speculative sale, I recommend you use a Colt. With other brands you can put $5,000. worth of work into one to end up with a $2,000. gun. The more elaborate your work will be (gold inlay, figures, etc.) the more value you will lose on an inexpensive...
  10. Roger Bleile

    Stuff we listen to while we're engraving.

    Check out these Cossacks. (3) Кубанський козачий хор -Ти ж мене підманула - YouTube
  11. Roger Bleile

    SCI 50th Anniversary Project

    That is very instructive to aspiring engravers. Most have no concept of spending 60-70 hours to make a figure that could be covered with the tip of your thumb.
  12. Roger Bleile

    engraving on cast metal problems

    No tips but it is an age old problem. Recently, I was examining a Winchester 1866 engraved by John Ulrich in 1868. It was in pristine condition but there was a tiny hole in the background where his background punch hit a void in the bronze casting.
  13. Roger Bleile

    Show us your favourite chasing hammer

    My favorite looks quite ordinary (I don't have a picture). It was given to me by Jean Francois DuBois who was an instructor at the Leon Mignon school in Liege, Belgium. I met him at the IWA show in Nuremberg, Germany. After a brief conversation he just gave it to me which means a lot to me. You...
  14. Roger Bleile

    Show us your favourite chasing hammer

    They were purchased by the late Bob Lee who donated them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
  15. Roger Bleile

    Help identifying engraver

    Your shotgun was engraved by a Japanese engraver. The work of Japanese engravers is very distinctive. During the occupation, American GIs could buy guns through the BX/PX and have them engraved locally at very modest cost. Also, during the 1970s, Robert Izenstark imported several Japanese gun...
  16. Roger Bleile

    New Graver Sharpener Ha! Ha!

    That is a spin off of the Lansky knife sharpening system. I have one and they work great but getting your initial grind with the course stone can take quite a while if the original edge was ground at a much higher angle than you are going for.
  17. Roger Bleile

    Engraved Colt revolver

    Sorry folks but this is not the work of Louis D. Nimschke. There are many differences between the engraving on this pistol and LDN's work. Most likely this is the work of Georg H. Sterzing who was trained in and emigrated from Germany in his 50s in 1854. He worked for Colt from approximately...
  18. Roger Bleile

    Engraver

    The last address I have for Bill Johns is: 1716 8th St Cody, WY 82414 - Park County (307) 587-5090 I do not know if he is extant but if he is he is he would be in his late 80s. He was still active as late as 2014. Bill had Bachelor's and Masters degrees in psychology but in 1976 he became a...
  19. Roger Bleile

    Engraver

    Yes.
  20. Roger Bleile

    N. Letawe

    If Rocco Capace sees this he may know. I checked the Belgian engravers site but Letawe is not listed there. You can contact Alain Daubresse through this site. He is the expert on Belgian guns. Nouvelle page 0 (littlegun.be)

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