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Silver Carved
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 Very Rare 1917 Carved Military Estate Pipe with silver band with Hallmarks $20.00 Time Remaining: 2h 10m |
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 Sterncrest vintage pipe sterling silver band carved $14.99 Time Remaining: 2d 16h 28m |
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Silver Carved
A Glance at the Carving Art of Indonesia
The art of carving or engraving is a decorative image with concave parts (kruwikan) and convex parts (buledan) that make up a beautiful picture. Then, the carving art is known as an art that forms images on wood, stone, or other materials.
Indonesian people became familiar with carving art since Neolithic, that was around 1500 B.C. In those days, fathers of the Indonesian have made a carving on a stone ax, the forging of clay, or other encountered materials. The motif and craftsmanship of the carvings in that era were still very simple. Generally, the motif of carvings was geometric that patterned lines, dots, and arches, with materials including clay, stone, wood, bamboo, leather, and animal horns.
In the Bronze Age, that was around the year 500 until 300 B.C., materials to make carvings have been developed. Indonesian used bronze, gold, silver and others. They made the carvings by using casting technology. Motives used in the Bronze Age is meander, tumpal, double helical, masks, animal and human.
After Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam entered Indonesia, the art of carving experienced rapid growth in the form of production design and motive. Carvings were found in many temples and inscriptions that made by people in those days. The carvings were also found on weapons, such as kris and spears, tombstones, mosque, palace, musical instruments, including gamelan and wayang.
Motif of the carvings described not only the shape, but also the story of the gods, myths, epics, etc. The relics of historical engraving evidence of the period can be seen in temple reliefs, such as in Penataran temple in Blitar, Mendut and Prambanan temple in Central Java.
Nowadays, the wood and metal carvings experience the rapid development. In addition, their function has shifted from the magical things into an ornamental motif.
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To create the art of carving, what you need is laser engraving equipment. However, different equipment has different quality. If you do not give priority in quality, used engraving machine provides you some those equipments in reasonable price.
Is it against the law to do this to a coin?
I saw an auction on eBay for a bass guitar pick carved out of a quarter. (Take a look: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Solid-SILVER-Metal-Coin-Bass-Guitar-George-Pick_W0QQitemZ230337783228QQihZ013QQcategoryZ159950QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem )
Is defacing this coin illegal?
I'm pretty sure that all US currency is the property of the US government and it is illegal to deface or destroy it in anyway. However it isn't really enforced.
Aventurine Sterling Silver Carved Floral J-Hoop Earrings