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To be an engraver at Crane, “you have to live in a state of perfection every single day,” Buhler says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Blake left school at the age of 10, having learned to read and write, and he was apprenticed at 14 to a commercial engraver.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years, played a key role in the transformation, Ayo said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

The glassblower Katherine Huskie vividly remembers the tour she took with the engraver Nancy Sutcliffe in 2018.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Then after this good-bye Singer crossed the street and walked on alone to the jewelry store where he worked as a silverware engraver.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers