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[Bill Brockway]

Sam - Here's another picture for your collection of historic engravers - Rudolph Kornbrath:

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=73848&page=1&gonew=1#UNREAD

Bill

 

[Bill Brockway]

historic engravers

Sam -

If you will click on the page numbers for this thread - there are 5 pages - you will find a number of photos of Kornbrath's work, as well as others of his contemporaries.

Bill

 

[Sam]

Bill: I can't get the link to work. Can you copy and email me the photos? I'd really like to have some of Kornbrath if it's ok for us to host them in the Gallery. / Sam

 

[Gargoyle]

Sam, this link takes you to the first page of that thread:
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=73848&page=1
There is some Kornbrath on that page. The thread runs on for five pages, with more beautiful photos of engraved firearms. The funny thing is, on page four there's a post which links back to a thread here with Swartley photos.

 

[Sam]

Thanks, Walter! That did the trick. I sent them to monk and he should post them soon.
Thanks for your help. / Sam

 

[Christiaan]

There is some pretty impressive doubles there. We got a beautiful 12Ga Baker shotgun in the shop with some of the most impressive small scroll engraving on the locks. I'll see if I can take a pic or two of that Baker tomorrow.

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Looking at those pictures it's easy to see why his work had such an influence on Winstone Churchill. You can see the progression from master to apprentice. No wonder Kornbrath was considered one of the best of his generation. I think that it also proves that good design always stands the test of time.

Thanks for the link.

Cheers
Andrew