(Ebook free) Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America
♥ Mark Silver, Wallace Gusler ♥
| #1961190 in Books | 2003-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .89 x11.32 x9.76l, | File Name: 1857592891 | 192 pages
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Splendid overview of this trade|By RGMac|This is the companion catalog to an important and long awaited exhibit of some of the most exquisite firearms ever made in modern times, which was held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The photography is stunning, the biographical and technical texts written by Wallace Gusler and Mark Silver are excellent and highly instructive, a|About the Author|Mark Silver is a custom gun-maker, specialising in American, British and Continental sporting and high art fire arms from the late 17th century to the 20th. Wallace Guslar is Master Gunsmith at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The art of custom gun-making has always been an important part of European and American decorative arts, with its unique combination of woodcarving, silver and gold work, ornamental ironwork and inlay. Taling influences from the spectacular hunting armes that were both symbols of status and taste for European nibility, this tradition continued in the US throughour the early 19th century. In the 1950s, the craft experienced a new renaissance, spurred on by the nostalgia ...
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