Debate between rolled engraving and hand engraving

[joe breda]

Bruce, Thanks for the contact info, I just did,.. Just that !
Cheers,
JoeB

[Robert Delk]

I like that you took the trouble to find out for yourself about the engraving.Most of us would have just asked and not received near as complete an answer.I have seen 2 repros that had the factory engraving enhanced by a skilled engraver and the results were really nice.

[Chuck Heald]

I didn't pull my Repro out, but my recollection is that the main fields are impression marked. There are indicatons of raised metal around the markings. There are also indications of hand engraved scroll scattered thruout.

The roll marking/impression die has to be made by an artist. This is commonly done in roll marking dies by creating a master that is much larger scale, then a pantograph (duplicator not unlike stock duplicators) is used to duplicate the pattern in the die at a reduced size and in reverse. The die is polished as needed and hardened in an inert atmosphere heat treat to prevent scale.