Goldschmiede. – Johann Erhard Heiglen

Goldsmiths. -Johann Erhard Heiglen (1683-1757). Gantz new inventions of different kind of services, belonging to the goldsmith's art... . Augsburg, J. J. Baumgartner, about 1725. 8 (of 9) copper plates with numerous illustrations in hallmark engraving on vessels and tableware as well as ornaments (foliage and ribbon work), each inscribed at the lower margin after author and with publisher's address. Berlin 960 (war loss). Sheets 2 and 6 traceable in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. One sheet of the set in the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna. - Plates folded vertically, mostly only marginally spotted, marginal defects, traces of storage. Enclosed related and additional title page, right half lost. - Extremely rare Augsburg pattern book for goldsmiths, otherwise not verifiable for us in this extent. Thieme/B. refer to the ornamental work of the Augsburg goldsmith and engraver Heiglen and to v. Stetten, after whom Heiglen obtained the freedom letter from Emperor Charles IV.