24-03-2026, 09:08 PM
(24-03-2026, 03:52 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Some designer at some point extends Renoir's catalogue with variations, let's call this Renoir+. The Salani seal is derived from whatever resource Renoir+ is found in. Design 5 is also derived from Renoir+, but makes some additional tweaks.
Going from a printed drawing of a seal to a metal stamp (or a mold for casting the same) is not a simple matter, even with modern machining tools and photographic etching processes. For one thing, the printed design does not have the depth information needed to make loops cross smoothly over each other.
Therefore, the company must have employed or hired a professional stamp/mold carver to do that. This person could easily have modified whatever printed design he used as source, to suit his tastes -- while carving the stamp or mold, or making the CAD model for it.
Indeed he may have modified the design on purpose, so that the company could copyright it if they wanted to -- which they could not do if he had copied the design from a public domain source without any change.
All the best, --stolfi