Established in 1935, the NRA National Firearms Museum houses and displays a collection of more than six thousand remarkable firearms, many of which are deemed by curators to be priceless works of art. In this detailed full-color volume, you will enter a world populated by only the finest examples of gunmakers art, as well as firearms that have graced the castle walls of the royal families of Great Britain. Illustrated in larger-than-life photography, "Treasures of the NRA National Firearms Museum" also includes portraits of:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower s shotgun for skeet shooting
A rifle made specially for an eighteenth-century emperor with a withered hand
President Teddy Roosevelt s collection of big-game hunting rifles
A shotgun owned by Annie Oakley, the most gifted markswoman of all time
And hundreds more exquisite photographs of historically important firearms
This tome offers for the first time photographs of many spectacular works of art from the recently donated Robert E. Petersen Collection. This 425-gun collection is world renowned for its beauty, elegance, and variety of styles of engravers art. With exquisite photography, "Treasures of the NRA National Firearms Museum" brings the splendor of royalty and wealth to your home, giving a bigger and closer look at these firearms than ever before published."
- ISBN10 151071409X
- ISBN13 9781510714090
- Publish Date 22 September 2016
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
- Imprint Sky Pony Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English