http://brassgoggles.disqus.com/NoneenSun, 04 Feb 2007 04:19:10 -0000http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200702/beautiful-engraving-1500s-to-1800s#comment-16456324<p>Following the links back to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I found these Items of interest. <br><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=4&amp;zoomFlag=1&amp;viewmode=0&amp;item=15%2E113%2E1%2D5%3B+29%2E158%2E885" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=4&amp;zoomFlag=1&amp;viewmode=0&amp;item=15%2E113%2E1%2D5%3B+29%2E158%2E885">Harquebus Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal</a>, <br><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=4&amp;zoomFlag=1&amp;viewmode=0&amp;item=1986%2E265%2E1%2D2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=4&amp;zoomFlag=1&amp;viewmode=0&amp;item=1986%2E265%2E1%2D2">Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great</a>,<br><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=18&amp;zoomFlag=1&amp;viewmode=0&amp;item=06%2E1312" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=18&amp;zoomFlag=1&amp;viewmode=0&amp;item=06%2E1312">Square Piano</a> click on the zoom button to look at the detail close up.</p>NecrotekSun, 04 Feb 2007 04:19:10 -0000http://brassgoggles.co.uk/blog/200702/beautiful-engraving-1500s-to-1800s#comment-16456323<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>ordinalSat, 03 Feb 2007 15:43:19 -0000