RHD45,
Here (below)(post #24787) is where MP stated that Korbrath made "his journeymans piece" ...he wants us to think it was "European double" (as he labeled the shotgun) but I suspect that he simply knew Kornbrath apprenticed or completed his training in Austria...if I remember correctly, at the same engraving school as Franz Marktl though many decades before.
The true history of our very best American doubles hardly needs another five decades of obscurity because of his trained eye and well read assessment.
Please forgive my curtness with this beginner...yeah, MP's a beginner, just like the rest of us...
If someone/anyone trumps you're understanding with better/stronger/more accurate information about any endeavor, and you don't concede, then you (not you, anybody) are guilty of letting your ego get in the way of your intellect.
Do the readers want accurate information, or do they prefer "oats once through the horse"? anyway here is Petrov's assessment of one of the most important doubles of American origin...
Much of the Kornbrath stuff is at the McCracken Research Library at Cody, WY, I spent about a day with it many years ago. The rest was owned by Wilson, not sure if he still has it or not. I did a lot of research on Mr. Kornbrath and went so far a too interview family members. During one of these I found his Journeyman piece, a European double, owned at the time by his grandson who had no idea what it was. Once I explained what this was they told the other family members and things got a little out of hand, I retreated.
