POTD: Holland & Holland in Colour
For today’s Photo Of The Day, we have pictures of a Holland & Holland shotgun that has color added to some elements of its engravings. This shotgun was commissioned by an American customer. Holland & Holland had never used color in the engravings of their guns before so the company mastered a new technique and now offers the colored engravings as an option for their flagship Royal guns.
In the press release announcing the possibility of adding colors to engravings, Mike Jones, Head of Marketing, Holland & Holland, said:
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Holland & Holland’s new bespoke offering for clients of the ‘Royal’ portfolio. The application of colour to our fabled engravings allow clients far greater artistic expression. Holland & Holland’s innovative approach exceeds industry standards, providing astonishing accuracy through intricately detailed shading and blending, for any pictorial scene.
A common way of introducing color to engravings is enameling, however, Holland & Holland found it limiting and wanted something that would allow more detailed shading and blending and would be more durable. The solution was the medical-grade resin compound with organic color pigmentation used in jewelry and watchmaking.
Pictures by Holland & Holland, www.hollandandholland.com
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I can appreciate the artistry but that is not appealing in the slightest.
Well... I can admit that it is too bold for a classic used to grayscale but it just shows that there are other ways of doing things. True, it may not be of refined taste but they make truly beautiful colored weapons. Do you know, for example, Peter Hofer's hummingbird rifle?