L. Brancquaert : Manufacture d'Armes de Luxe = Fabbrica d'Armi di Lusso
A luxury gunmaker's trade catalogue issued by L. Brancquaert of Brussels in 1904, presenting its hammerless shotguns in French and Italian for prospective buyers of fine arms. The pictures are close, sharply lit photographs of double-barrelled guns with engraved actions, gold-inlaid detailing and walnut stocks, shown with price captions beneath. A designer might draw on the crisp tonal contrast of polished steel against dense scrollwork and the tidy, numbered layout of the model plates.
