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Old 03-16-2008, 10:14 PM
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Do you think the more ornate engravers were in Europe // Did they make the trip to the New World??? or did we begin to loose the really ornate and begin with simpler engraving as more movement happened in the Colonies.
I know we had fine gun makers who engraved but could they have started to become less ornate and more affordable to compensate lack of retail customers (so to speak) and increasing makers coming in. In other words put what they need and could afford (in the hands of the few) rather than what they wanted and could not?
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