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joseph engraver

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What do you think of this engravers name?Sorry that the photos are not great they are not mine.(Which are not much better)
 

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I don't know what to make of this provenance. When I searched for Czar Nicholas III the best I could find was here http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/nicholasii.htm Czar Nicholas II is said to be the last czar. Mr. Bolino was wise to find another employer that year. The website states: Moved to the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks, Nicholas and his family were executed on the night of 16/17 July 1918. What stories could that rifle tell?
I wish I could have found more of Gino Bulino's work. Could his engraving techniques have brought about the use of the term bulino engraving?
 

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Bulino is simply the Italian word for burin. In the letter the name is spelled Bullino. I have never heard of a famous Italian engraver named Bullino but there were many engravers without much recognition in the early 1900's.

Joseph, does this look like Italian engraving to you?

Roger
 

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I know nothing of the history of gun engraving, but to my eye the quality of the carving does not match with what I would expect from a family which commissioned Faberge eggs. (And I agree that the last czar named Nicholas was II). Strikes me as questionable.
Gary
 

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When I looked at the pictures, it appeared more like "sand casting" than engraving to me.
 

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Peter,

I'm glad you said that. It was my first impression also! It may just be a fluke due to the photo quality, but it sure looks like a "French sand" casting to me, (and a relatively poor one, at that). It appears more "south of the border" than Italian in design and execution. But, I'm sure no expert.

Mark
 

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