06-21-2014, 06:03 PM
Phil.
Thank you for the compliments and I have to agree with all that you say indeed there is a combination of both types of work with many of these scabbard decorations, in fact to say that punched work has a better and more fine or crisp finish is not the case but in fact the very opposite for from some of my experience of this.
I have to say that with finner metal and hand worked repousse' one can get the better and more crisp results, then again a decoration plate such as the main plate of the Fulham there is just too much detail and area for anyone to have wanted to make such a set for it to be punched out.
In fact if one checks out the main plate it becomes evident that the whole picture was indeed hand drawn onto a sheet of copper alloy then hand worked.
Thank you for the compliments and I have to agree with all that you say indeed there is a combination of both types of work with many of these scabbard decorations, in fact to say that punched work has a better and more fine or crisp finish is not the case but in fact the very opposite for from some of my experience of this.
I have to say that with finner metal and hand worked repousse' one can get the better and more crisp results, then again a decoration plate such as the main plate of the Fulham there is just too much detail and area for anyone to have wanted to make such a set for it to be punched out.
In fact if one checks out the main plate it becomes evident that the whole picture was indeed hand drawn onto a sheet of copper alloy then hand worked.
Brian Stobbs