Thomas Taylor, a master engraver and printer made the dies.

The craftsmanship is of the master engravers of the Cesare Giovanelli studio.

Very few master engravers exist today who rely solely on "feel" and muscle memory to sharpen tools.

These master engravers typically worked for many years as an apprentice, most often learning techniques decades before modern machinery was available for hand engravers.

Publishers hired artists who drew images that were then carved into wood blocks (sometimes a dozen or more for one print) by a master engraver.

In only 10 minutes, a simple design is then cut into a 10-inch plate freehand by a master engraver.

The engraving lines were clean and uninterrupted, the skillful work of a master engraver, the sort of lines on valid bills.

In the 1880s he began working in the printing and sign making trade and eventually became a master engraver .

The coins bear the signature of the master engraver responsible for the engraving of the coins' dies.

He is a descendant of Numa Guyot, a Swiss master engraver.