Pictures of the engraving school
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engraver place of work with tools (graver)


trainees at their work


1st year:(after three month) Flat tinge with oak leaves ornaments

2nd year: Processing of a human representation, insert in leaf ornaments (model by brothers Störer from Zella-Mehlis (1879)

2nd year: “Flachtauschierung” a figure in copper

Correction instruction between teacher and trainee

3rd year:
Processing of side plates: relief engravings (ornaments), “Reliefauschierung” in copper;
up on the left and down on the left: hunting scenery with a long-haired dog in old German leaf.;
up on the right: oak leaf;
down on the right: thistle leaf

Single exposure of a hunting scenery in thistle leaf

Drawing under instructions (subject art) at the end of the 1st year (especially nice pictures)

Engravings of an exam preparation 3rd year,
as well as relief engravings of the 2nd years

Engravings of pig feathers (have been used on top of a gun to catch the animals), ornament with a ground and animal motive, thistle and oak leaf

Final examination 1st year: black oak ornament, deep ground (hunting scene)

2nd year: hunting scene
Beginning 3rd year:
monogram “Tauschierung” in brass, initials as well in relief prick
Explanations to the plates:

Those plates have the use of practice for the trainees, which are made out of steal and it’s a mass order from the industry. The first use is for the gunsmiths to drag them and after for the engravers. They are used as well in brass, copper, tin, mark, decorating metals, silver and gold parts.

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