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ONE OF THE BEST REFERENCE BOOKS ON BOWIE KNIVES FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE RON TUNISON
Item Code: 1100-288
This book is titled "THE BOWIE KNIFE – UNSHEATHING AN AMERICAN LEGEND" by the well-known gun expert, the late Norm Flayderman. The volume was published in 2004 by Mowbray Publishing.
The volume is bound with a brown cloth spine bearing the title in gold and plain cream-colored boards which are excellent and still protected by a dustjacket that is in very nice condition. Meas. approx. 9.25 x 12.25 inches,
Interior is very clean and runs approx. 512 pages with index. Table of contents show 20 chapters covering the history of the Bowie knife as well as a small section on terminology. Volume contains hundreds of black & white and a few color photographs of Bowie knives and period photos of soldiers carrying the knives. Many various and sundry topics concerning the Bower knife are discussed. This is the one book on the subject to have.
Ron Tunison (1947 – 2013) was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., and was a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a scholarship student at the NYC National Academy where he continued his sculpting studies. He went on to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor of nine heroic bronze monuments: "General W. Crawford," near Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the "Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial" on Steinwehr Ave., the bas-relief "Delaware State Memorial" on Taneytown Road, and "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial" at Evergreen Cemetery. On the Antietam National Battlefield is Tunison's "Irish Brigade Monument." "The Bivouac" is at the entrance to the Civil War Soldier's Museum at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Va. "The Delaware Continentals" heroic size bronze of three advancing Revolutionary War soldiers stands atop a twenty-five-foot granite pedestal in front of Legislative Hall at Dover, Delaware. At Ringgold Gap in Atlanta, Ga., is Ron's life-size General Patrick Cleburne. Dedication ceremonies for "General John Barry, U.S. Naval Commander", took place May 10th, 2014 at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Ron was the entrepreneur behind his own company Historical Sculptures, where he sculpted smaller statues. [ad] [ph:L]
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