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 Author Name: Michael Petrov
Title: CUSTOM GUNMAKERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: COLLECTED ARTICLES FROM PRECISION SHOOTING MAGAZINE
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: Precision Shooting
ISBN Number: 1931220212 / 9781931220217
Seller ID: 1853369
A collection of 20 articles by widely recognized custom rifle historian Michael Petrov. 168 pgs.
'The Kentucky rifle, from its Golden Era, is today treasured by collectors and museums alike as a distinctly American art form dating back over 200 years ago, to a time when America was just beginning to define itself as well as its (then) modest place in the world. Entire books, of impressive size and even more impressive color photography, exist today and study the rifles themselves, their makers (usually one-man shops), and the various regional "Schools" as areas of colonial Pennsylvania and nearby States began to evolve certain characteristics in their Kentucky rifles that were unique to that region and time.
It is just possible that 200 years from now the custom-made rifles of the first half of the 20th century will be widely recognized as products of their own Golden Age here in America, and the subject of rapt appreciation from the collectors and museums of that era. Presumably numerous books will exist on their history and the small shops that lovingly and painstakingly crafted them.
While books on the Kentucky rifle abound today, the same cannot be said of literature on the custom rifles of the first half of the 20th century. They are few and far between; a grand total of two come to this writer's mind at the moment. This bodes ill for the students of the genre one hundred and two hundred years from now. The craftsmen who fashioned the Kentucky rifles in their Golden Age may have been fairly well known, at least on a regional basis, in their day in age, but it was in the oral tradition that they were known; little was in the written word. And thus we are reduced today to researching them in census records and ancient graveyards.
A smattering of the riflesmiths in these pages...Ludwig Wundhammer, A.O. Neidner, Griffin & Howe, Hoffman Arms Co, Alvin Linden, Emil Koshollek, R.G. (Bob) Owen, R.F. Sedgley, Adolph George Minar, Fred Adolph, Harvey Rogers and many more.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael Petrov, of Anchorage, Alaska, has been tirelessly researching the custom rifle makers of the first half of the 20th century for many years now. Fortunately for those students in future generations, he's been gathering historical information while there is still access to a steadily decreasing number of people who actually knew, spoke with or corresponded with these old time craftsmen. His files on the topic are voluminous and continue to grow as he pursues his research.
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