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Heraldry as art : an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England (1907)

Eve, George W., d. 1914 · London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 221

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s evolved by Finiguerra,the famous Florentinegoldsmith, in the middleof the fifteenth century.This interesting experi-ment, if it were an experi-ment and not a practicewhose application hadbeen before unnoticed, issaid to have been madeon a piece of plate, a pix,of which the only impres-sion is… … Fig. 192. Bill or Glaive, German (1620). 198 HERALDRY AS ART of metal. In the former the lines of the engraving arefilled with a sort of black enamel which is fixed in itsplace by heat, while in damascening the design, drawnwith boldly cut lines on the steel, is filled in with goldor other metal…

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