Definizione

• Cut-cardwork.  Design cut or engraved in thin metal sheet (usually silver) and applied in several layers to a base medal or object of the same or contrasting composition (as in imitation of modulated relief). The effect is to show design on several levels (somewhat like a topographical map that shows varying surface elevations). The most popular use of cut-cardwork was for engraved badges – prepared by silversmiths or jewelers – as they are more often found in custom work than in production run objects. It is always fabricated handwork, prepared at a bench. Because of its layers of metal edges with perpendicular standing taper and lack of a bevel, cut-cardwork cannot be reproduced on die-cutting pantographs nor could it be ejected from a die if it could be diestruck.
  This 2 bit specimen of a cut coin bears counterstamps in addition to being cut in quarters from a Spanish Piece-of-Eight for circulation in Curacao.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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