The book cover is bordered by morse code signals, showing just one of the skills Jack deployed during his Royal Air Force military service, first in England, then Germany, between 1958-1961. Also, the cover shows the image of the actual Enigma machine, recovered from the German U-Boat U110, plus the image of HMS Aubrietia.
In this skillful blending of historical narrative and personal memoir, Jack takes us on a gripping journey through the secret world of code-breaking during World War II.
Jack’s well-travelled life is filled with history and adventure dating back to 1958. During his three-year military service, Jack received extensive training in the Royal Air Force and at Bletchley Park where he spent time researching the Bletchley codebreakers. These individuals were responsible for cracking the Enigma and Lorenz coded messages used by German navy warships and military during World War II.
Since retiring from the Telecoms industry at the age of 50, Jack has become a leading practitioner of marquetry and has written three books on the subject, including all the famous Thomas Chippendale marquetry furniture, as seen on his website: www.chippendalemarquetry.co.uk
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Finding & Naming Thomas Chippendale’s Marquetry Team
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Jack Metcalfe examines the contents of Thomas Chippendale’s ground-breaking Director, first published in 1754, that originally established the ‘Chippendale brand’. This led Jack to uncovering the links with a fellow neighbouring furniture maker, Pierre Langlois, operating only a mile from Chippendale’s workshop and whose marquetry designs echoed many motifs found within the Director. In this book, Jack explores the possible union between the two furniture makers. This allowed Jack to further identify and reveal the marquetry team, both by name and nationality, who had performed all the marquetry work on Chippendale’s own commissions that were to follow. In addition, Jack examines the role of the man who cast all the brass mounts attached to Chippendale’s marquetry commissions.
