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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
Howdy y'all,
Amy's made another work of art: http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...o-nickel.shtml Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy: http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...QQcmdZViewItem Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
On Mar 23, 9:41*pm, "Mr. Newt" wrote:
Howdy y'all, Amy's made another work of art:http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...gger-no-fishin... Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy:http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...-by-Armstrong-... Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob Thats very cool Rob, I bought one of these off ebay awhile back, with a different carven. I'm not sure if it was one yours or not, but they all look like a lot of work. How long does it take to carve one of these? Anyways thanks for sharing! |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
On Mar 24, 1:51*am, sgt23 wrote:
On Mar 23, 9:41*pm, "Mr. Newt" wrote: Howdy y'all, Amy's made another work of art:http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...gger-no-fishin... Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy:http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...-by-Armstrong-... Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob Thats very cool Rob, I bought one of these off ebay awhile back, with a different carven. I'm not sure if it was one yours or not, but they all look like a lot of work. How long does it take to carve one of these? Anyways thanks for sharing! I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? Ira |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
On Mar 24, 10:10*am, Ira wrote:
On Mar 24, 1:51*am, sgt23 wrote: On Mar 23, 9:41*pm, "Mr. Newt" wrote: Howdy y'all, Amy's made another work of art:http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...gger-no-fishin... Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy:http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...-by-Armstrong-... Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob Thats very cool Rob, I bought one of these off ebay awhile back, with a different carven. I'm not sure if it was one yours or not, but they all look like a lot of work. How long does it take to carve one of these? Anyways thanks for sharing! I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? Ira- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I feel that it is difficult to call these newly engraved things "hobo nickels" because (1) they use little or none of the design element(s) of the original Indian or Buffalo on the coins and (2) they no doubt rely heavily on modern tools, so they can't accurately be called hand engraved. The original hobo engravers didn't have those modern tools. oly |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
Ira wrote:
On Mar 24, 1:51 am, sgt23 wrote: On Mar 23, 9:41 pm, "Mr. Newt" wrote: Howdy y'all, Amy's made another work of art:http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...gger-no-fishin... Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy:http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...-by-Armstrong-... Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob Thats very cool Rob, I bought one of these off ebay awhile back, with a different carven. I'm not sure if it was one yours or not, but they all look like a lot of work. How long does it take to carve one of these? Anyways thanks for sharing! I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? The attraction of the "Bo" nickels was that they showed a clever exploitation of the original design while at the same time minimally modifying it. One had to have considerable artistic talent to use the Indian head and the buffalo advantageously and effectively to make something else out of them. Otherwise, what's the point? One could do a bunch of carving on an electrical box knockout and then try to peddle it as a "hobo" coin. James |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
oly wrote:
On Mar 24, 10:10 am, Ira wrote: On Mar 24, 1:51 am, sgt23 wrote: On Mar 23, 9:41 pm, "Mr. Newt" wrote: Howdy y'all, Amy's made another work of art:http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...gger-no-fishin... Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy:http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...-by-Armstrong-... Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob Thats very cool Rob, I bought one of these off ebay awhile back, with a different carven. I'm not sure if it was one yours or not, but they all look like a lot of work. How long does it take to carve one of these? Anyways thanks for sharing! I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? Ira- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I feel that it is difficult to call these newly engraved things "hobo nickels" because (1) they use little or none of the design element(s) of the original Indian or Buffalo on the coins and (2) they no doubt rely heavily on modern tools, so they can't accurately be called hand engraved. The original hobo engravers didn't have those modern tools. Stop the presses! Oly agrees with Ira! What hath God wrought? James the Breathless |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
Johnny Doe wrote:
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:10:33 -0700 (PDT), Ira wrote: I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? Ira I don't think you can compare a piece like this with the Bo piece. The cartoonishness that you dislike is just a totally different style, designed to have a cartoon look. The best old-time hobo nickels are AMAZING works of art, from a time when that work of art might be all that decided whether you slept in a warm room or in a freezing gutter. By using the phrase "hobo nickel" in the title of both links that he provided, the OP is indeed comparing the new products with Bo pieces. We don't have to discuss styles or tastes to take note of that fact. James |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
oly wrote:
On Mar 24, 10:10 am, Ira wrote: On Mar 24, 1:51 am, sgt23 wrote: On Mar 23, 9:41 pm, "Mr. Newt" wrote: Howdy y'all, Amy's made another work of art:http://www.armstrongengraving.com/ni...gger-no-fishin... Take a look and see. This Hobo Nickel is also for sale on ebay if it catches your fancy:http://cgi.ebay.com/Hobo-Nickel-Dust...-by-Armstrong-... Thanks for your patience and patronage. Rob Thats very cool Rob, I bought one of these off ebay awhile back, with a different carven. I'm not sure if it was one yours or not, but they all look like a lot of work. How long does it take to carve one of these? Anyways thanks for sharing! I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? Ira- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I feel that it is difficult to call these newly engraved things "hobo nickels" because (1) they use little or none of the design element(s) of the original Indian or Buffalo on the coins and (2) they no doubt rely heavily on modern tools, so they can't accurately be called hand engraved. The original hobo engravers didn't have those modern tools. oly Currently there is a list of favorite pieces of members of the Original Hobo Nickel Society on their website, plus a whole slew of others, all nicely illustrated, representing an enormous diversity of styles: http://hobonickels.org/news.htm |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:10:33 -0700 (PDT), Ira wrote:
I think the example on eBay is quite ugly. I don't care how long It took to "engrave" it, but it's a far cry from some of the original hobo nickels i've seen. I used to have one carved by Bo on a type 1 buffalo nickel. I sold it about ten years ago. The example this guy is selling looks like a poorly excecuted cartoon. Anyone agree? Ira I don't think you can compare a piece like this with the Bo piece. The cartoonishness that you dislike is just a totally different style, designed to have a cartoon look. The best old-time hobo nickels are AMAZING works of art, from a time when that work of art might be all that decided whether you slept in a warm room or in a freezing gutter. |
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FS: A New Coin Engraving To Be Seen & Admired
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... Stop the presses! Oly agrees with Ira! What hath God wrought? Even a blind chicken gets a piece of corn. |
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