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Unread 02-06-2018, 06:23 PM   #9
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Sooner or later we've got to see a 'looking back" dog being "looked back" at by a covey of "looking back" birds! I like the shading effect on the chest and shoulders of the pointer - much more subtle and pleasing as opposed to the usually encountered "Pluto" effect. C-grades have some of the nicest and unusual floorplate motifs; being a true high grade (e.g., order-only & seldom made for stock), if the customer did not specify a scene for rendition, the engraver often gave in to personal whimsy or preference. Years ago I passed up an A-grade that was ordered by a lumber baron in Maine that had an otter engraved on the floorplate, floating on its back in a kelp bed, cracking open some type of shellfish with a stone (I had to avoid it because it had those life-threatening Damascus barrels!!)
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