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Engine Turning: Machine engraving to produce brilliance, often in a pinwheel like pattern under transparent enamelling.
Engine Turning - A decoration, particularly on black basalt ware, produced by placing the leather-hard body on an eccentric lathe so that it made a geometrical pattern.
Engine Turning
Another engraving technique that can be applied to plain metal, and is frequently used on powder compacts, cigarette lighters and larger pieces. Geometric, criss-cross designs are generally favoured.
 See also: Table, Decoration, Engrave, Gold, Silver
  
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