Well, having spent part of Sunday looking at British engraving patterns that included birds whose anatomy is best described as "turnip-like", I'm not sure I'd be too hard on the Germans for their engraving sins. No one does scroll like the British engravers, but much of their animal engraving makes the items under discussion here look good. Although, I hasten to add that I've seen a fair amount of German engraving where the dogs look like pigs, the deer look like pigs, the elk (red deer, I guess over there) look like pigs and the pigs look like pigs. And the ducks have bills that look like they came from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.