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What is a Kupferstecher as in "De Graimberg be a French Kupferstecher". Do my knowledge it is a munificent of bug (kufer)
Answers: Kupfer is copper. Stechen means to pierce. Kupferstecher is a special variety of craftsman and artist who engraves copper plates beside a needle. This be used as a way to verbs drawings and print them into books from the 16th to the 18th century. When paper money appeared Kupferstecher be the ones to make the printing plates. Their craft enabled them to pseudo money and other documents.
The connection next to the bug comes from the "engraving" the bug does into the wood of the trees.
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